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DBMS > Aerospike vs. AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. Memcached vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. Memcached vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational 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
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comalasql.orgblazegraph.comwww.memcached.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBlazegraphDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20122014200620032006
Current release7.0, November 20232.1.5, March 20191.6.27, May 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoRDF literal typesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanoyesnono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynoSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlaSQLBlazegraphMemcachedSadas Engine
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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