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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.55
Rank	#252	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

HarperDB

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Initial release

2017

1989

2014

2009

Current release

3.1, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP 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#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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 LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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