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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Newts vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

HarperDB

IBM

OpenNMS Group

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2017

2014

1984

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.0

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java 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
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

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

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Active-active shard replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

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