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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Hive vs. Kinetica

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Name

Description

A distributed database focused on speed and ease of use. It has an intuitive REST API, and supports NoSQL and SQL including joins. HarperDB leverages standard interfaces, and users can be up and running in minutes.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.52
Rank	#238	Overall
	#37	Document stores

Score	81.61
Rank	#17	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#212	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

harperdb.io

hive.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

harperdb.io/developers/documentation/overview

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.kinetica.com/docs

Developer

HarperDB

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Kinetica

Initial release

2017

2012

Current release

3.1, August 2021

3.1.2, August 2019

7.1, August 2021

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

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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Specific characteristics

HarperDB is the first distributed database with hybrid SQL & NoSQL functionality...
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Native and fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs, with memory first...
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Competitive advantages

By combining the functionality of the best SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL products on the...
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Best in class geospatial and temporal analytics. Lockless architecture provides real-time...
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Typical application scenarios

Use cases where HarperDB is a better fit than other solutions include: Rapid app...
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Any application requiring (1) real time insights, (2) time series analysis (3) geospatial...
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Key customers

A few highlighted customers include: US Army, US Airforce, Chelan PUD, TATA, & Lumen....
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Citibank, US Air Force, Softbank, OVO, Telkomsel, USPS, 2 of the top 3 US Telcos,...
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Market metrics

Over 26K total HarperDB users : 12,700+ npm downloads 10,000+ on Docker Hub 3,400+...
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The largest IoT deployment in the world, NORAD, runs on Kinetica.
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Licensing and pricing models

HarperDB follows a freemium/premium model . A data base is only as powerful as it...
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Always Free Tier in the Cloud, Pay-As-You-Go Consumption Based Pricing, and Portable...
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