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Name

Description

A distributed database focused on speed and ease of use. It has an intuitive REST API, and supports NoSQL and SQL including joins. HarperDB leverages standard interfaces, and users can be up and running in minutes.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	3.66
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#284	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

harperdb.io

rethinkdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

harperdb.io/developers/documentation/overview

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

HarperDB

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2009

2011

Current release

2.3.1, January 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

HarperDB Cloud: Get To Market Faster, For Less Money Using Our Built-in API.

Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

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

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

users and table-level permissions

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

HarperDB is the first distributed database with hybrid SQL & NoSQL functionality...
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Competitive advantages

By combining the functionality of the best SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL products on the...
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Typical application scenarios

Use cases where HarperDB is a better fit than other solutions include: Rapid app...
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Key customers

A few highlighted customers include: US Army, US Airforce, Chelan PUD, TATA, & Lumen....
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Market metrics

6,800 + npm downloads 1,600 + on Docker Hub 2,300 + cloud & local signups
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Licensing and pricing models

HarperDB follows a freemium/premium model . A database is only as powerful as it...
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