DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. eXtremeDB vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. eXtremeDB vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle

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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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

High performance Time Series DBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.mcobject.com

kx.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

code.kx.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

McObject

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2001

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2015

1980

Current release

1703

8.2, 2021

3.6, May 2018

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

rights management via user accounts

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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