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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. CrateDB vs. Faircom EDGE

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseJavaScript DBMS libraryNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Distributed Database based on LuceneFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comalasql.orgarangodb.comcratedb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edge
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.arangodb.comcratedb.com/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperAerospikeAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffArangoDB Inc.CrateFairCom Corporation
Initial release20122014201220131979
Current release7.1, May 20243.11.5, November 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++JavaANSI C, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infoANSI SQL queries
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JavaScript APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoJavaScriptuser defined functions (Javascript)yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infosince version 2.0ShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationnoneEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes infowhen using SQL
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQL
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynoyesrights management via user accountsFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlaSQLArangoDBCrateDBFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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