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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Riak TS

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebirdsql.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebird FoundationHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2015
Current release5.0.0, January 202411.2, May 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++GoCErlang
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesno
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'PSQLnoyesErlang
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersnoyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization concepttoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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