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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

HarperDB

ObjectBox Limited

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2000

2023

Current release

3.1, August 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

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

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful 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++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

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
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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