DBMS > Firebird vs. gStore vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. gStore vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Riak TS

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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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

en.gstore.cn

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

1.2, November 2023

12.0, July 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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