DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ClickHouse vs. etcd vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ClickHouse vs. etcd vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Weaviate

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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 distributed reliable key-value store

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

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

clickhouse.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Clickhouse Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

1987

2019

Current release

1703

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.4, August 2019

16.0

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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