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DBMS > Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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 InterBaseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChris DavisHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationOracle
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20061974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2007
Current release5.0.0, January 202411.2, May 202214.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++PythonGoCJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes 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 availableno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneIngres Replicatoryes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infolockingnoyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnotoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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