DBMS > Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

2018

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

11.2, May 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

JSON types

yes

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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)

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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 journaling

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

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