DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. MySQL vs. Solr vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. MySQL vs. Solr vs. Weaviate

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Name

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Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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.)

Widely used open source RDBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

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Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

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

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

www.mysql.com

solr.apache.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

dev.mysql.com/doc

solr.apache.org/resources.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

1992

1995

2006

2019

Current release

1703

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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