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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. Greenplum vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. Greenplum vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Serverless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.orggreenplum.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedFirebird FoundationPivotal Software Inc.Hyprcubd, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release21.2, February 20215.0.0, January 20247.0.0, September 202311.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++GoC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infosince Version 4.2nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesnoyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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