DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb

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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

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

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

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rdf4j.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

1992

2021

2004

2011

Current release

1703

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

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

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

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

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

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

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