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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Interbase vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.harperdb.iowww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.airethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperHarperDBEmbarcaderoOpenNMS GroupquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20171984201420092009
Current release3.1, August 2021InterBase 2020, December 20193.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsCJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
TriggersnoyesnonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using LMDByesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissions

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