HarperDB, the Distributed Systems Platform provider, is announcing its recent rebrand to Harper, reflecting its movement beyond just a performance-focused database vendor. Evolving as a full-stack application delivery platform offering speed and scale for data-intensive workloads, Harper touts a new brand identity that highlights the company’s long-term vision as a performant, future-forward application platform.
Harper’s rebrand is a testament to its ongoing product innovation and incorporation of customer feedback, transcending its original value as a high-performance database to become a single, highly performant, low-latency technology platform that secures, manages, and extracts value from data to the edge. By combining database, application, cache, and messaging capabilities, Harper offers a frictionless tech stack that removes inefficiencies between each technologies’ resource-consuming logic, serialization, and network processes.
This is particularly crucial as increasingly, sub-seconds can make or break profit and business success, according to Harper. As per Truelist’s “Shopping Cart Abandonment Statistics” report, about 80% of customers who are dissatisfied with load speeds are less likely to return; 70% reported that speed impacts their likelihood to purchase; and 75% of all sales are lost due to abandonment.
Harper’s unified approach to web performance—and its ongoing commitment to removing the friction running rampant in enterprise tech stacks—zeroes in on these sales-inhibiting performance issues.
“From the outset, Harper has been focused on delivering incredible performance for web-based applications,” said Stephen Goldberg, CEO and co-founder of Harper. “We started with a database because we knew that we had to get that foundation right. The rebrand ultimately reflects our long-term vision of delivering the most performant, future-forward application platform in the world, allowing digital commerce brands to deliver lightning-fast experiences to their customers that drive revenue, while reducing IT costs and complexity.”
Harper’s transformation of backend processes has demonstrated significant success, where common backend processes that take an upward of 100 milliseconds on traditional systems only take 0.2-1 millisecond with Harper. Additionally, web page loads are nearly 10x faster than industry averages—with some Harper users seeing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) load times 30x faster than industry benchmarks, according to the company.
To learn more about Harper, please visit https://www.harpersystems.dev/.