DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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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

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

quasar.ai

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

quasardb

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2009

2010

2014

Current release

1703

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

integer and binary

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

yes

using Azure authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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