Harper 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Harper

4.3

(15)

Pricing

Starting at $19.99 per month

About Harper

HarperDB enables you to solve data distribution and latency challenges. It is a turn-key solution for the collection, distribution and analysis of data throughout your organization.

As one of the fastest and most flexible databases on the market, HarperDB is enabling use cases like edge persistence, distributed applications, hybrid cloud, and more.

HarperDB lowers the total cost of ownership by enabling improved performance with a smaller footprint and fewer products while avoiding cloud lock-in.

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Harper Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $19.99 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$19.99

per user, per month

No plan information available

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Harper Features

Popular features found in Database
Backup and Recovery
Database Conversion
Data Connectors
Data Migration
Data Replication
Data Virtualization
Multiple Programming Languages Supported
Performance Analysis
Secure Data Storage
More features of Harper
Access Controls/Permissions
API
Authentication
Charting
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Dictionary Management
Data Import/Export
Data Integration
Data Storage Management
Data Synchronization
Data Visualization
Data Warehousing
Document Storage
ETL - Extract Transfer Load
Full Text Search
High Volume Processing
Mobile Access
Monitoring
NOSQL Database Management
Real-Time Data
Relational Database Management
Reporting/Analytics
Role-Based Permissions
Search/Filter
SSL Security
User Management

Harper User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

47%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.1

Damnik J.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

HarperDB Overall Review

I liked the HarperDB database but I feel like it's in the evolving phase. There is a room for improvement. It offers very great features like API, data clustering across nodes, simple to use. Some more features like Django support especially the migration feature.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I liked the no-setup part of HarperDB the most. It doesn't require any setup, you can get started by simply creating an account which saves the development time & efforts. Also, you can create multiple data cluster based on the needs which is again a very simple process through HarperDB console, which otherwise would takes hours even days to setup a cluster manually. Also, the API support makes it easy to use across different platform without writing explicit DAO API.

Cons:

I tried to use it in my Django project but due to lack of support, I wasn't able to integrate it completely initially. Then, I have write some custom models classes and eventually I was able to integrate it. Besides that, the API can sometime create an overhead but not a major concern though; the server are responsive & fast.

Reasons for switching to Harper

To save time & development efforts building the explicit DAO API, I switched from MySQL to HarperDB

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review, Damnik! We're actively adding additional SDKs and we're currently tuning the API to respond even faster.

Replied October 2020

Anees H.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed March 2022

Its worth

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

HarperDB is an easy walk-in for any type of developer, it has a SQL type query and JSON-based document formating. So, the data management and query writing is quite easy

Cons:

Availability of helper packages. Rather than using Axios and sending post requests every time, I would like to have a package that does this for me behind the scene.

Reasons for switching to Harper

I was looking for a tool where I can upload and download data directly from a spreadsheet.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review! You may find our SDK's and Drivers in the Studio helpful: https://studio.harperdb.io/resources/marketplace/active https://studio.harperdb.io/resources/drivers You can also always add suggestions to our feedback board: https://harperdb.featureupvote.com/ Cheers!

Replied April 2022

Rohan K.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2022

The Free tier benefits reduced over time

Neutral

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software provides ready made APIs to connect to DB. Saves deployment costs and time. Ease of use is great, plus the flexibility of SQL & NoSQL.

Cons:

The benefits of Free tier have reduced significantly over past 2 years. I think of moving away from HarperDB due to this reason. 1 GB storage of DB and only one instance allowed, I mean it's too low. Also the pricing of Paid tier is unaffordable for me who lives in developing country, like India. They should amend their prices accordingly across countries.

Reasons for choosing Harper

Because of ease of convenience and simplicity for new developers. A very welcoming approach to SQL and NoSQL data format storage.

Vendor Response

Hey Rohan, thanks for sharing your thoughts on HarperDB. We are constantly assessing our pricing model to ensure that it's a fit for our customers, and we appreciate all feedback on the topic. If you ever need to connect with our team, they are readily available via our Slack channel and/or support portal. https://harperdb.io/contact/

Replied April 2022

Damnik J.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

HarperDB for efficiency and easy scaling

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The HarperDB is efficient and can be integrated directly into the web applications. The API responses are super fast and offers lag free experience. The cluster can be scaled easily and is very cost effective.

Cons:

HarperDB is a great platform and offers great performance. Sometime the data is unstructured such as videos, images in the database which can be tedious to store in HarperDB.

Reasons for switching to Harper

HarperDB didn't required the backend server APIs to communicate with the database and can directly communicate with the HarperDB from frontend.

James E.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

Free Tier for Personal Use

I used this product with their free-tier/trial and found it to be pretty good. There are still some bugs to be worked out, but overall a positive experience.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I liked that it takes Mongo-like document structures and makes them SQL queryable.

Cons:

It was slightly confusing trying to integrate this with a flask application at first.

Reasons for choosing Harper

The cloud based implementation native support of HarperDB made it my number one choice out of the others.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review James! If you have any specific feature requests you can submit them here: https://feedback.harperdb.io/

Replied September 2020

💻 Andrew B.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

A versatile platform

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- It supports NoSQL and SQL databases - With custom functions you can have the API and database on the same platform - It supports lots of programming languages - Good documentation

Cons:

- Not sure how easy it is to backup and download your data

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review Andrew, we appreciate it!

Replied April 2022

Ethan A.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used other for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

HarperDB is fast and extensible

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I really like HarperDB's atomic data model and the ability to use both SQL and NoSQL queries. The database is fast and stable and easily deployable with docker.

Cons:

I would really like to see more access permission controls. It only supports basic authentication at the moment so I'd like to see more models created. Something like JWT secured service principals that are more secure for server-to-database transactions (rather than direct user-to-database).

Vendor Response

Thanks, Ethan! We have great news for you, we will be releasing JWT authentication in our next release later this year with additional options coming in the future.

Replied October 2020

Aman M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

HarperDB is definitely my goto cloud DB recommendation

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Once I got familiar with its Cloud instance interface, I realised how easy it is to use and get started as compared to other cloud databases which require a ton of settings and administrative tasks. Another thing I want to highlight is that how simple it is to integrate with its JavaScript SDKs for Node.js and Reactjs. Working with client side apps and fetching queries using latest React Hooks features with HarperDB adapter is a major advantage for developer experience. Taking care of developer experience is something not many product companies focus on and that is the biggest advantage I have found using HarperDB. Their customer/tech support is awesome. Always polite to understand and helpful.

Cons:

All softwares are not perfect. That said, I would like to see improvements on documentation side. Even though its a thorough documentation, someone with lack of experience or focused on shipping could spend a lot of time there. A bit more thorough examples might help to reduce that time.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the awesome review, Aman! We are always working to improve our documentation to help make developers' lives easier.

Replied October 2020

Enrique M.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Reviewed March 2022

A Pretty Good Option for Companies Looking for a NoSQL Option

I had a fairly good experience with HarperDB. It's on-par with competitors like Amazon DynamoDB, Restdb.io, MongoDB and others. It allows SQL querying and integrates well with Python and other programming languages.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It's pretty easy to set up and on-par with other NoSQL options. What is really good is that not many of the NoSQL options support SQL querying (Amazon's DynamoDB has PartiQL; but, pricing is higher than for standard NoSQL querying), whereas HarperDB does support it and it performs (in testing) just as well as NoSQL querying. This makes migration from traditional RDBMSs for applications and learning a lot easier and faster.

Cons:

The HarperDB Studio isn't very intuitive. I was attempting to query the tables in Studio; but, wasn't able to figure it out. Amazon's DynamoDB has a pretty good UI for reviewing data in tables and table structure. Restdb.io also has similar, though not as easy to use as Amazon's.

Vendor Response

Understandable, we are constantly evolving the HarperDB Studio, and we'll take a look at Dynamo and Rest. Thanks for the info!

Replied April 2022

Adam R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed April 2022

Great concept