DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

manticoresearch.com

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

manual.manticoresearch.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Embarcadero

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

1984

2017

1992

2021

Current release

1703

InterBase 2020, December 2019

6.0, February 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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