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DBMS > HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionUltra-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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.55
Rank#252  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.monetdb.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperHarperDBSpotifyGoogleMonetDB BVSybase, SAP
Initial release20172014201120041993
Current release3.1, August 20211.23, February 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
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++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nonoyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using LMDByesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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