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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. HBase vs. Kdb

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdbhbase.apache.orgkx.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcode.kx.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20122016201920082000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release7.0, November 20232.3.4, January 20213.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaq
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions 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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDAtomic single-document operationsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACrights management via user accounts
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBAmazon DocumentDBHBaseKdb
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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