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System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

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Name	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison	Sphinx  Xexclude from comparison
	This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.	SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.	Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database model	Document store Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Search engine
Secondary database models			Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart			Score 0.03 Rank #392   Overall #8   Spatial DBMS	Score 5.95 Rank #55   Overall #5   Search engines
Website	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.mireo.com/­spacetime	sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentation				sphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer	Atos Convergence Creators	Sybase, SAP	Mireo	Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release	2016	1993	2020	2001
Current release	1703			3.5.1, February 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java		C++	C++
Server operating systems	Linux	Linux Windows	Linux	FreeBSD Linux NetBSD OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	optional	yes	yes	no
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	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes full-text index on all search fields
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented	SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods	LDAP	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API	Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages	All languages with LDAP bindings	Delphi Perl PHP	C# C++ Python	C++ unofficial client library Java Perl unofficial client library PHP Python Ruby unofficial client library
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	no	no
Triggers	yes	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding cell division	none	Fixed-grid hypercubes	Sharding Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Real-time block device replication (DRBD)	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic execution of specific operations	ACID	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	LDAP bind authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	no
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