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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Tibero

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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.

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

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Website

harperdb.io

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

www.splunk.com

www.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

harperdb.io/developers/documentation/overview

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

HarperDB

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2017

1992

2003

Current release

3.1, August 2021

17, July 2015

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

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 and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero 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

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

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

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

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

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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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

Over 94K total HarperDB users : 16,500+ npm downloads 73,600+ on Docker Hub 4,200+...
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Licensing and pricing models

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