DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google BigQuery vs. Interbase vs. Kdb vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google BigQuery vs. Interbase vs. Kdb vs. Vertica

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

High performance Time Series DBMS

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kx.com

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

code.kx.com

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

Embarcadero

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2016

2010

1984

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2005

Current release

1703

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.6, May 2018

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

with views

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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