DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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.)

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cassandra.apache.org

geode.apache.org

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

geode.apache.org/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2016

2008

2002

1992

1994

Current release

1703

4.1.3, July 2023

1.1, February 2017

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes, on a single node

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

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

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights per client and object definable

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

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