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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. HarperDB vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#241	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#119	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.harperdb.io

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Axibase Corporation

HarperDB

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2017

2012

Current release

15585

3.1, August 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

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

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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