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DBMS > Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Couchbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Couchbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. RethinkDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.couchbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.couchbase.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseAtos Convergence CreatorsCouchbase, Inc.MicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release19992016201119922009
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231703Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++, Go and ErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
LDAPCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesyesyes infovia the TAP protocolyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infocell divisionAutomatic ShardingnoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoEphemeral bucketsno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardLDAP bind authenticationUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.no infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousers and table-level permissions

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