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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.

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Key-value store

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Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.harperdb.io

hbase.apache.org

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

HarperDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2017

2008

2002

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

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)

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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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