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DBMS > DuckDB vs. Faircom DB vs. HarperDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Faircom DB vs. HarperDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Quasardb

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.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.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.61
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#314  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score4.15
Rank#70  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.harperdb.iowww.progress.com/­marklogicquasar.ai
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperFairCom CorporationHarperDBMarkLogic Corp.quasardb
Initial release20181979201720012009
Current release1.0.0, June 2024V13, July 20243.1, August 202111.0, December 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++Node.jsC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,dynamic schemaschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes infoJSON data typesyesyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infoSQL92SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.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
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Custom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes, using LMDByesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes, with Range Indexesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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