# Harper Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Harper Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Database products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/197580/HarperDB/alternatives --- # Harper Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on March 25, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Harper ## What is Harper? Harper eliminates the complexity typically synonymous with distributed services 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. When clustered and geo-distributed, Harper nodes instantly synchronize data to deliver a horizontally scalable service fabric, ensuring low-latency in-region responses for clients worldwide. In addition to massive cost savings at scale, Harper’s REST, GraphQL, SQL, and real-time interfaces make light work of servicing frontend requirements. Install and manage on your hardware, or have us host your services with Harper Cloud. ## What is Harper used for? [Database](https://www.capterra.com/database-management-software/)[NoSQL Databases](https://www.capterra.com/nosql-databases-software/)[Data Warehouse](https://www.capterra.com/data-warehouse-software/) Overall rating Based on 15 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Starting price $19.99 Per User, Per Month Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Harper?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=https://www.harperdb.io&name=Harper) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Harper 4.3 (15) VS. [### Oracle Database](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/) [4.6 (471)](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/reviews/) Starting Price $19.99 Per User, Per Month Starting Price Contact vendor Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.6 (15) Ease Of Use 4.1 (471) Value For Money 4.5 (11) Value For Money 4.1 (368) Customer Service 4.4 (12) Customer Service 4.2 (366) ## Harper alternatives [Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) [4.7 (2,259)](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) [4.7 (468)](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) Highest Rated [AWS for Data](https://www.capterra.com/p/251481/AWS-Cloud-Databases/) [4.9 (7)](https://www.capterra.com/p/251481/AWS-Cloud-Databases/#reviews) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/251481/AWS-Cloud-Databases/) [Vantage](https://www.capterra.com/p/133231/Teradata-Database/) [4.3 (25)](https://www.capterra.com/p/133231/Teradata-Database/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/133231/Teradata-Database/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Access Controls/Permissions 4.3 (11) 36.36% of 11 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems Data Dictionary Management 4.1 (10) 60.00% of 10 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Stores definitions of the data elements and their relationships (metadata) and how they are retrieved for the user Data Storage Management 4.4 (10) 60.00% of 10 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Manage and store data in a database Data Replication 4.6 (9) 44.44% of 9 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Process of copying and storing data in more than one site or node Backup and Recovery 4.0 (8) 50.00% of 8 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Create backups and provide methods to recover deleted/lost data Multiple Programming Languages Supported 4.6 (7) 71.43% of 7 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Run stored procedures and queries in multiple programming languages, such as JSON, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, and SQL Harper 36 features Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Verify the identity of users/devices to enable secure access Create backups and provide methods to recover deleted/lost data Manage patient documentation describing all clinical interactions, diagnoses, procedures, medications, etc. Import, collect, and capture data from multiple sources Connect to big data sources Stores definitions of the data elements and their relationships (metadata) and how they are retrieved for the user Import and export data to and from software applications Combining data from different sources and providing a unified view Move from one database to another, or upgrade the version of database software being used Process of copying and storing data in more than one site or node Search and find data in a structured format Manage and store data in a database Synchronizing data between two or more devices/systems and automatically updating changes to maintain consistency Retrieve and use data without requiring technical details about the data Graphical representation of data Central repositories of integrated data from various sources Transformation of data from one format to another Store and organize documents in a centralized system Process of extracting and moving data from multiple sources to a single and unified database Search for specific words or phrases within a document or database Process and analyze large volume of data Access software remotely via mobile devices Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user Run stored procedures and queries in multiple programming languages, such as JSON, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, and SQL Database management based on customization, fluidity, and document relations Monitor and analyze the performance and status of a server or system/application Receive data and information in real time Database management based on relationships between data View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data Set & manage permission levels based on user roles and restrict access to only authorized individuals Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria Securely stores data to prevent data loss or breaches Security protocol that ensures secure, encrypted communication over the internet, safeguarding sensitive data from unauthorized access Manage user accounts, profiles, roles, permissions, and other details across applications, devices or networks Get Advice We can help you find the software with the features you need. Features 4.1 (15) 4.1 Based on 15 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.5 (11) Free Trial Free Version Basic $19.99 Per User,Per Month Value for money 4.5 (11) 4.5 Based on 11 reviews Connect with a Capterra advisor for a free 15-minute consultation Get a personalized software list aligned to your business needs with guidance from our expert advisors. Our team has helped 1 million+ businesses like yours find options that fit their needs. ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.4 (12) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.4 (12) 4.4 Based on 12 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.3 Based on 15 reviews Filter by rating 5(7) 4(7) 3(0) 2(1) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent Damnik J. Software Engineer Computer Software ### "HarperDB for efficiency and easy scaling" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 29, 2022 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. Switched from [MySQL](https://www.capterra.com/p/11482/MySQL/) HarperDB didn't required the backend server APIs to communicate with the database and can directly communicate with the HarperDB from frontend. Alternatives considered [MySQL](https://www.capterra.com/p/11482/MySQL/) Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AR Adam R. Software Dev Computer Software ### "Great concept" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 April 1, 2022 Pros The ability to combine sql queries with nosql model storage Cons The web interface feels a little clunky. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor April 7, 2022 Thanks Adam, appreciate the feedback! :computer: Andrew B. Software Developer Information Technology and Services ### "A versatile platform" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 31, 2022 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 Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor April 12, 2022 Thanks for the review Andrew, we appreciate it! EM Enrique M. Senior Software Engineer Government Administration ### "A Pretty Good Option for Companies Looking for a NoSQL Option" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 March 31, 2022 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. 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. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor April 7, 2022 Understandable, we are constantly evolving the HarperDB Studio, and we'll take a look at Dynamo and Rest. Thanks for the info! RK Rohan K. Freelance Developer Publishing ### "The Free tier benefits reduced over time" 2.0 Overall Rating 2.0 2.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 1.0 1.0 Likelihood to Recommend 3/10 March 31, 2022 Neutral 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. Alternatives considered [FaunaDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/193875/Fauna-DB/) [Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)](https://www.capterra.com/p/203476/Oracle-Cloud-Infrastructure/) [AWS Config](https://www.capterra.com/p/205398/AWS-Config/) [Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) 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. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor April 12, 2022 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/ AH Anees H. Solution Architect Computer Software ### "Its worth" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 March 31, 2022 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. Switched from [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) I was looking for a tool where I can upload and download data directly from a spreadsheet. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor April 7, 2022 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! PK Petros K. Developer Computer Software ### "Harper Db review" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 October 12, 2020 Pros I like the capability that Harper db offers both no sql and sql at the same time Cons I would like to use Harper db but your cloud instances are located only at us and my side project that I want to build are at Greece Alternatives considered [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor October 15, 2020 Thank you, Petros! We're actively discussing deploying HarperDB Cloud in regions outside of the US and we're hoping to have that complete by the end of 2020. JW Jenell W. Student of Software Engineering Human Resources ### "HarperDB Cloud --> useful for our project" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 5, 2020 Pros I enjoyed the ease of controlling how I can delete test entries from the db. I also found it pretty easy to call to the DB API so as to retrieve our data and use in json format. There is documentation about how to call with Python which is the language we used for our back end. I enjoyed the user interface. Cons There is less control about data types, which can be a pro and also a con. I was used to specifying which data type will be in each column but you don't have to do that for Harper DB which could give problem to the user. We also had to use a combination of SQL and noSQL searches to be able to pull our data for our application. On the other hand, I think if we were to spend more time playing with all the features we perhaps would have been able to work out these kinks. Switched from [PostgreSQL](https://www.capterra.com/p/48791/PostgreSQL/) Reasons for choosing Harper We used HarperDB Cloud for a hackathon project sponsored by HarperDB. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor October 6, 2020 Thanks for the review, Jenell! EA Ethan A. Software Engineer Computer Software ### "HarperDB is fast and extensible" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 October 5, 2020 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). Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor October 6, 2020 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. AM Aman M. Software Developer Computer Software ### "HarperDB is definitely my goto cloud DB recommendation" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 October 1, 2020 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. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor October 6, 2020 Thank you for the awesome review, Aman! We are always working to improve our documentation to help make developers' lives easier. [View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/197580/HarperDB/reviews/) Independent research methodology Capterra's researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. 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