DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

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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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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.)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

maxdb.sap.com

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

1984

1992

2013

Current release

1703

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

yes

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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