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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRDF store
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
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeAlibabaCloud Inc.AmazonCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20122016200720172004
Current release7.0, November 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanonoyes, in Luayes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor3 replicasyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/ReduceES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceAmazon SimpleDBIRONdbRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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* Alibaba & Ant-Financeļ¼šhe infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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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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Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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