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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GreptimeDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Transbase

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  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 InterBaseAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggreptime.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.greptime.comdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGreptime Inc.Hyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20221974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s1987
Current release5.0.0, January 202411.2, May 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++RustGoCC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
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 availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
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
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLPythonnoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-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 integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptSimple rights management via user accountstoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
FirebirdGreptimeDBHyprcubdIngresTransbase
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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