DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FatDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FatDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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.)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

FatCloud

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

2010

1992

Current release

1703

15.5, September 2020

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes, event driven architecture

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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

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