DBMS > Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB

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Name

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Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

geospock.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1999

2016

1989

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

2.0, September 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

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++

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Automatic sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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