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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb

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Name

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Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

11.2, May 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

text, numeric, histograms

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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