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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name	HarperDB  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database model	Document store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models				Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.60 Rank #244   Overall #38   Document stores	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS		Score 0.12 Rank #348   Overall #151   Relational DBMS
Website	www.harperdb.io	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentation	docs.harperdb.io/­docs	spotify.github.io/­heroic		docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
Developer	HarperDB	Spotify	Sybase, SAP	Transwarp
Initial release	2017	2014	1993
Current release	3.1, August 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community edition available	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Node.js	Java
Server operating systems	Linux OS X		Linux Windows
Data scheme	dynamic schema	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes JSON data types	yes	yes	yes
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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes via Elasticsearch	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like data manipulation statements	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC React Hooks RESTful HTTP/JSON API WebSocket	HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API	.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		Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Custom Functions since release 3.1	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	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	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic execution of specific operations	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes, using LMDB	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	HarperDB	Heroic	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Transwarp ArgoDB
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