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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. EsgynDB vs. Milvus vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. EsgynDB vs. Milvus vs. Sphinx

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycassandra.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnmilvus.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookEsgynSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162008201520192001
Current release17034.1.3, July 20232.3.4, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, JavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsLDAPProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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