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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datomic vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datomic vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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 networksDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsCognitectFirebird FoundationSpotify
Initial release201620122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142014
Current release17031.0.7075, December 20235.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC and C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsLDAPRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsPSQLnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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