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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx vs. Sqrrl

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.bigchaindb.compouchdb.comsphinxsearch.comsqrrl.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestpouchdb.com/­guidessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20162016201220012012
Current release17037.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalnononoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsLDAPCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocolAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnonoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationyesnonoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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