DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Faircom DB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Faircom DB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

FairCom Corporation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

1979

2010

1989

Current release

1703

V12, November 2020

V12

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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