DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Snowflake

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

basex.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.heavy.ai

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2007

2016

2010

2014

Current release

1703

10.7, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

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

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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