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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Newts vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionUltra-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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.55
Rank#252  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#121  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.harperdb.ioopennms.github.io/­newtswww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverquasar.airethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperHarperDBOpenNMS GroupPerconaquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20172014200820092009
Current release3.1, August 20218.0.36-28, 20243.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJavaC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
JavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noyesno
TriggersnonoyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using LMDByesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissions

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