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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. SingleStore 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.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#258	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	7.03
Rank	#62	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#328	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

harperdb.io

www.singlestore.com

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

Technical documentation

harperdb.io/developers/documentation/overview

docs.singlestore.com

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

Developer

HarperDB

SingleStore Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2013

1987

Current release

3.1, August 2021

7.6, November 2021

Transbase 8.4, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

64 bit version required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

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

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

HarperDB is the first distributed database with hybrid SQL & NoSQL functionality...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantages

By combining the functionality of the best SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL products on the...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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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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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customers

A few highlighted customers include: US Army, US Airforce, Chelan PUD, TATA, & Lumen....
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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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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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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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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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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