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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQLite vs. STSdb vs. Warp 10

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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.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	76.78
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Score	111.41
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Score	0.10
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	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.sqlite.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

HarperDB

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

STS Soft SC

SenX

Initial release

2017

2010

2000

2011

2015

Current release

3.1, August 2021

V12

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

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#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Transact SQL

yes

WarpScript

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

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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