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DBMS > Firebird vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Transbase

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 InterBaseEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Serverless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#304  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.postgresql.fastware.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s1987
Current release5.0.1, August 2024Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 202212.0, July 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++CGoCC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsnoyesyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonepartitioning by range, list and by hashhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyes 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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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