DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Interbase vs. Milvus vs. Snowflake vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Interbase vs. Milvus vs. Snowflake vs. YDB

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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

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

milvus.io

www.snowflake.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2016

1984

2019

2014

2019

Current release

1703

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

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

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Active-passive shard replication

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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