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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP IQ

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Widely used RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

www.jaguardb.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

HarperDB

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

2015

1980

1994

Current release

3.1, August 2021

3.3 July 2023

23c, September 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful 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

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

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

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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