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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. AlaSQL vs. eXtremeDB vs. Fauna vs. Kingbase

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseJavaScript DBMS libraryNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comalasql.orgwww.mcobject.comfauna.comwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmdocs.fauna.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMcObjectFauna, Inc.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release20122014200120141999
Current release7.0, November 20238.2, 2021V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC and C++ScalaC and Java
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 infosupport of XML interfaces availablenoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLnoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanoyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes infoby defining eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning / shardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
Multi-source replicationyes
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlaSQLeXtremeDBFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBKingbase
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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