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DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. OpenSearch

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  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 InterBaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Serverless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCCRi and othersHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationAmazon Web Services
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2021
Current release5.0.1, August 20245.0.1, July 202412.0, July 20242.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageC and C++ScalaGoCJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerIngres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesnoyes 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.depending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagetoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
FirebirdGeoMesaHyprcubdIngresOpenSearch
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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