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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. searchxml vs. SQLite

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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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.55
Rank	#252	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

HarperDB

informationpartners gmbh

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2015

2000

Current release

3.1, August 2021

1.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Windows

server-less

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

on the application server

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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