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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transbase

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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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

HarperDB

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2013

1992

1987

Current release

3.1, August 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free development license

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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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