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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. RocksDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websiteaerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.couchbase.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.couchbase.comgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupCouchbase, Inc.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20122016201320112013
Current release7.0, November 2023Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20239.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGoC, C++, Go and ErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuayesnoFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++no
Triggersnoyesnoyes infovia the TAP protocol
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneAutomatic Shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
yes
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 configurationImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDyesACIDyes
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.yesnonoyes infoEphemeral bucketsyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.no
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBBoltDBCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseRocksDB
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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