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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Newts vs. Pinecone vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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 CassandraA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.harperdb.ioopennms.github.io/­newtswww.pinecone.ioquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperHarperDBOpenNMS GroupPinecone Systems, IncquasardbSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20172014201920092013
Current release3.1, August 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesyesString, Number, Booleanyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
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
JavaPython.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nonoJavaScript
Triggersnononono
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
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access control

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