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

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

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score44.28
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssolr.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20161992200620012019
Current release17031902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20199.5.0, February 20243.5.1, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnoyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsLDAPADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava pluginsnono
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic lockingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Atos Standard Common RepositoryMicrosoft AccessSolrSphinxWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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