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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. Trino

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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.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

HarperDB

quasardb

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2009

1994

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

3.1, August 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

restricted

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Erlang

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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