DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparison	IBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
	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	A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.	Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method	Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database model	Document store Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Event Store Time Series DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models					Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart		Score 2.84 Rank #100   Overall #51   Relational DBMS	Score 0.27 Rank #309   Overall #2   Event Stores #28   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.10 Rank #357   Overall #51   Key-value stores	Score 0.12 Rank #348   Overall #151   Relational DBMS
Website	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	cloud.google.com/­spanner	www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentation		cloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs	www.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store		docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
Developer	Atos Convergence Creators	Google	IBM	STS Soft SC	Transwarp
Initial release	2016	2017	2017	2011
Current release	1703		2.0	4.0.8, September 2015
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial free developer edition available	Open Source GPLv2, commercial license available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java		C and C++	C#
Server operating systems	Linux	hosted	Linux Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition	Windows
Data scheme	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	optional	yes	yes	yes primitive types and user defined types (classes)	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	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes Query statements complying to ANSI 2011	yes through the embedded Spark runtime	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	LDAP	gRPC (using protocol buffers) API JDBC At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements. RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET DB2 Connect JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API
Supported programming languages	All languages with LDAP bindings	Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python	C C# C++ Cobol Delphi Fortran Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python R Ruby Scala Visual Basic	C# Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes	no
Triggers	yes	no	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding cell division	Sharding	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.	Active-active shard replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		yes using Google Cloud Dataflow	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic execution of specific operations	ACID Strict serializable isolation	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	No - written data is immutable	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	yes
User concepts Access control	LDAP bind authentication	Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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