DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NCache vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NCache vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite

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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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

spark.apache.org/sql

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

InterSystems

Alachisoft

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2018

2005

2014

2000

Current release

1703

2023.3, June 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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