Harper Argues against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2

The database platform Harper advocates for a single-runtime architecture that keeps application code and data together, with its benchmark against a Vercel-based stack reporting significantly better performance on live, personalized-data workloads. Harper recently released version 5.2, with a new record cache and more throughput per node. The approach runs counter to a trend InfoQ covered in February, when Databricks introduced Lakebase, a PostgreSQL database built on the separation of compute from storage. Where Lakebase…