DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP IQ

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Name

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Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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.)

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

geode.apache.org

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2002

1992

2021

1994

Current release

1703

1.1, February 2017

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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, on a single node

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

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

Access rights per client and object definable

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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