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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector 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
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websiteaerospike.comalasql.orgwww.h2database.comhbase.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoft
Initial release20122014200520082015
Current release7.0, November 20232.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 2021V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes infousing Azure authentication
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlaSQLH2HBaseMicrosoft Azure AI Search
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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