Harper Named Winner of Two 2026 Data Breakthrough Awards

‍Open Source Data Platform of the Year • In-Memory Solution of the Year

Harper has been named a winner in two categories in the 7th annual Data Breakthrough Awards: Open Source Data Platform of the Year and In-Memory Solution of the Year. The program, run by independent market intelligence organization Tech Breakthrough, honors the companies, technologies, and products driving breakthrough innovation in the global data technology market.

Harper is one of a small set of 2026 honorees recognized in more than one category, and the only company named across both the Open Source and Compute & Infrastructure categories.

Why these two categories matter together

The Data Breakthrough Awards span dozens of categories across Data Management, Analytics, Observability, Business Intelligence, Storage, DataOps, and more. Winning in two of them, in the specific categories we won, reinforces what Harper's architecture actually is:

• Open Source Data Platform of the Year recognizes Harper as foundational infrastructure that teams can inspect, extend, and own. No black boxes. No ejection risk.
• In-Memory Solution of the Year recognizes Harper's performance architecture — a unified runtime that co-locates database, vector search, cache, pub/sub, and application logic in a single process, eliminating the network hops that dominate latency in traditional stacks.

Open source earns trust. In-memory earns performance. Harper delivers both in the same runtime, which is exactly the architectural bet we've been making: that as LLMs commoditize, the defensible position is the runtime that agents and applications run inside of.

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About the awards

The Data Breakthrough Awards are selected by an independent panel of industry experts who evaluate each submission against six weighted criteria: Innovation, Performance, Ease of Use, Functionality, Value, and Impact, with Innovation and Impact carrying additional weight. Only one winner is named per category. The 2026 program drew thousands of nominations from across the globe.

Other 2026 honorees include MariaDB, Aerospike, Yugabyte, NetApp, Grafana, Snowplow, Chronosphere, Sumo Logic, VAST Data, and Hammerspace — placing Harper alongside some of the most established names in data infrastructure.

About Harper

Harper is the unified runtime for agentic engineering. Database, vector search, semantic cache, real-time pub/sub, REST/GraphQL, and application logic run in a single Node.js process, with zero network hops between them. Enterprise teams use Harper to ship AI-native applications and agents that are faster, simpler, and cheaper to operate than anything possible on a traditional stack.

Harper is open source and available at github.com/HarperFast/harper. Harper Fabric, the managed cloud deployment platform, is available at fabric.harper.fast.

The Data Breakthrough Awards are administered by Tech Breakthrough LLC, an independent market intelligence organization. More information is available at databreakthroughawards.com.

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