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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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Name

Description

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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

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Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

www.harperdb.io

www.hawkular.org

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

HarperDB

Community supported by Red Hat

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2017

2014

2008

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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 data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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