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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FileMaker vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FileMaker vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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 networksFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#359  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.claris.com/­filemakerboilerbay.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftMicrosoft
Initial release20161983200219922015
Current release170319.4.1, November 20214.01902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshosted
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.yesyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsLDAPFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsPHPJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionnonenonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonenoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authentication

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