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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.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

www.kingbase.com.cn

opennms.github.io/newts

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

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

HarperDB

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

OpenNMS Group

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2017

1999

2014

1998

Current release

3.1, August 2021

V8.0, August 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

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 Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

PL/SQL

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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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