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System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IBM Db2 vs. Memcached vs. OceanBase vs. Snowflake

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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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.memcached.org

en.oceanbase.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

IBM

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

2003

2010

2014

Current release

1703

12.1, October 2016

1.6.27, May 2024

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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