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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimesTen

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.)SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycassandra.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.sadasengine.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookMicrosoftSADAS s.r.l.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162008199220061998
Current release17034.1.3, July 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20198.011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesyes
APIs and other access methodsLDAPProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionSharding infono "single point of failure"nonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
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 loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
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 2003Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Atos Standard Common RepositoryCassandraMicrosoft AccessSadas EngineTimesTen
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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