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DBMS > Firebird vs. Firebolt vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Firebolt vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. TerminusDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.firebolt.iohyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.firebolt.iodocs.actian.com/­ingresterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFirebird FoundationFirebolt Analytics Inc.Hyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20201974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2018
Current release5.0.0, January 202411.2, May 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++GoCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerIngres ReplicatorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersnoyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concepttoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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