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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

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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.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

HarperDB

Microsoft

Mireo

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2015

2020

1987

Current release

3.1, August 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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