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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. PostGIS vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

postgis.net

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

HarperDB

Transwarp

Initial release

2017

2005

Current release

3.1, August 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

OpenCypher

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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