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DBMS > HarperDB vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenQM

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMS
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Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.harperdb.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperHarperDBHypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20172009201020151993
Current release3.1, August 20210.9.8.11, March 20163.3 July 20233.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageNode.jsC++ErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesnonoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
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
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using LMDByesyesyesyes
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 rolesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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