DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA vs. Weaviate

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

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

bigobject.io

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/hana

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

SAP

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2015

1992

2010

2019

Current release

1703

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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 data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

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

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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