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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite 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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

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

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

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

Developer

HarperDB

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

1995

2019

2008

1987

Current release

3.1, August 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

proprietary syntax

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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