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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

HarperDB

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2017

1984

2010

2017

Current release

3.1, August 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

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

since Version 11.4

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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 and groups

yes

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