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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

hsqldb.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

HarperDB

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2017

2001

2016

2013

2017

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Java, SQL

Transact SQL

Triggers

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

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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