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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Stardog

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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 accessMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycassandra.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookMicrosoftMicrosoftStardog-Union
Initial release20162008199220152010
Current release17034.1.3, July 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V17.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsLDAPProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
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 objectno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and roles
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Atos Standard Common RepositoryCassandraMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft Azure AI SearchStardog
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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