DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ClickHouse vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ClickHouse vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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.)

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

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

clickhouse.com

boilerbay.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Clickhouse Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2002

1992

2015

Current release

1703

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

4.0

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Java

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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 and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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

yes

using Azure authentication

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