DBMS > Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. searchxml vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. searchxml vs. Transwarp KunDB

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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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	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

informationpartners gmbh

Transwarp

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

11.2, May 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

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

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

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)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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