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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. HarperDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.harperdb.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

HarperDB

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2018

2017

1984

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

3.1, August 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Node.js

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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