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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Lovefield vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.harperdb.io

google.github.io/lovefield

surrealdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

surrealdb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

HarperDB

Google

SurrealDB Ltd

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2014

2022

2019

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

v1.5.0, May 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Node.js

JavaScript

Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

JavaScript

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

Using read-only observers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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