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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. ToroDB

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 InterBaseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMicrosoft 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.)A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.firebirdsql.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsFirebird FoundationCirconus LLC.Microsoft8Kdata
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201719922016
Current release17035.0.0, January 2024V0.10.20, January 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsLDAPADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyes, in Luayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and roles

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