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DBMS > HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. ObjectBox

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHarperDB 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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperHarperDBSpotifyBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release2017201419992017
Current release3.1, August 2021V8.0, August 20214.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJavaC and JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Proprietary native API
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesyesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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