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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. GridDB vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. GridDB vs. Kingbase

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  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 networksFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cngriddb.netwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Toshiba CorporationBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200420131999
Current release17035.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.1, August 2022V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C, Java, PythonC++C and Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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.yesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)Standard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsLDAPADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLuser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACIDACID at container levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Atos Standard Common RepositoryFirebirdGBaseGridDBKingbase
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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