DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL

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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.

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

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

basex.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2007

1992

2021

2011

Current release

1703

10.7, August 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

XQuery supports types

yes

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

but no files for transaction logging

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights for users and roles

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