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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. HarperDB vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#341	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#261	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	4.85
Rank	#81	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

harperdb.io

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

harperdb.io/developers/documentation/overview

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

HarperDB

Initial release

2015

2017

2001

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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