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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.harperdb.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.harperdb.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HarperDB

Spotify

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes, using LMDB

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Role based authorization

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