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DBMS > Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Manticore Search vs. PostgreSQL vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Manticore Search vs. PostgreSQL vs. TimescaleDB

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NameHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Widely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
Relational DBMS
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitehyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmanticoresearch.comwww.postgresql.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgresql.org/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationManticore SoftwarePostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerTimescale
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20171989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL2017
Current release11.2, May 20226.0, February 202316.3, May 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoCC++CC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableCan index from XMLyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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