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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. LevelDB vs. NCache vs. RDF4J

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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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.harperdb.io

github.com/google/leveldb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

HarperDB

Google

Alachisoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2017

2011

2005

2004

Current release

3.1, August 2021

1.23, February 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

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++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

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

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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