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System Properties Comparison Harper vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Harper fuses database, cache, messaging, and application functions into a single process, delivering web performance, simplicity, and resilience unmatched by multi-technology stacks.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.56
Rank	#240	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.30
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.harpersystems.dev

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

HarperDB

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2017

2009

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

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

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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