Harper 5.2: More Throughput per Node, Fewer Systems Around It

Harper 5.2 introduces performance, reliability, security, and operational features intended to reduce infrastructure costs and the number of external systems required to run applications. A new record cache accelerates repeated reads by an estimated five to eight times in tested workloads, improves vector search performance, and leaves cold-read behavior unchanged, while dedicated database commit paths isolate heavy writes from unrelated asynchronous operations to reduce tail latency. A new default SQL engine uses Harper indexes for supported query types, avoiding full-table scans and substantially improving benchmarked query times while retaining fallback support for unsupported queries. Harper Pro adds encrypted environment-secret deployment and replication, and the release expands agentic application capabilities through integrated model support, scheduled work, filtered vector retrieval that respects record-level access rules, and caching. Additional built-in functions include coordinated scheduled jobs, RocksDB backup and restore workflows, configurable application routing, and a web application firewall, allowing organizations to use fewer separate tools where their deployment requirements permit.

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