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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.harperdb.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

HarperDB

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2017

2010

2021

2009

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

Erlang

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes, using Riak Security

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