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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

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Description

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.54
Rank	#241	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	3.74
Rank	#74	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.timescale.com

Developer

HarperDB

TempoIQ

Timescale

Initial release

2017

2012

2017

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

New HarperDB Release Delivers a 50% Increase in Replicated Write Performance and Introduces Sharding
7 December 2024, The Eastern Progress Online

HarperDB Attracts Significant Growth Investment from Serent Capital
12 June 2024, Business Wire

Defense Innovation Unit Issues Success Memo to HarperDB for its Common Operation Database Prototype
11 September 2024, PR Newswire

DoD Successfully Deploys Commercial AI Solutions for COD Project
10 September 2024, Defense Innovation Unit

HarperDB Welcomes Former Couchbase CEO, Bob Wiederhold, as Executive Chairman
28 August 2024, StreetInsider.com

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11 June 2024, PR Newswire

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18 March 2019, azure.microsoft.com

Timescale Valuation Rockets to Over $1B with $110M Round, Marking the Explosive Rise of Time-Series Data
22 February 2022, Business Wire

Timescale Acquires PopSQL to Bring a Modern, Collaborative SQL GUI to PostgreSQL Developers
4 April 2024, PR Newswire

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