DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake vs. TimesTen

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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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

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.)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	104.92
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Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

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

www.snowflake.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

FairCom Corporation

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

1979

1992

2014

1998

Current release

1703

V3, October 2020

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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 queries

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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