DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Access

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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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

Relational DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hsqldb.org

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

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

1983

2010

2001

1992

Current release

1703

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, SQL

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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