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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database for speed, scale, and savings. Millisecond latency for mixed read/write workloads. Highly distributed. Proven strong consistency. Distributed ACID Transactions. Flash optimized for low cost of ownership and scalability. Aerospike Database is a shared-nothing, multi-threaded, multi-model data platform designed to operate efficiently on a cluster of server nodes, exploiting modern hardware and network technologies to drive reliably fast performance, at sub-millisecond speeds across petabytes of data.A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score5.23
Rank#59  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#155  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardb
Technical documentationaerospike.com/­docs
docs.aerospike.com
www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overview
DeveloperAerospikeAlibaba
Initial release2012
Current release8.0, February 2025
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source, Commercial infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Aerospike Cloud: aerospike.com/­products/­aerospike-cloud
Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLvia Trino Connector or JDBC driveryes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
REST
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C# (.NET)
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayes
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAuto-ShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Strong Consistency in local cluster configuration. Also supports single cluster deployments with strong consistency across multiple AZs and Regions.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic Distributed ACID transactions execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP external authentication: aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­security/­ldap
Mutual TLS authentication (PKI auth): aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­network/­tls
Password authentication: aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­security/­access-control infowith Enterprise Edition only
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): aerospike.com/­docs/­graph/­security/­access-control
Access rights for users and roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlibaba Cloud PolarDB
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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