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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. SiteWhere

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.datastax.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeAlibabaDataStaxSiteWhere
Initial release201220112010
Current release7.0, November 20236.8, April 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayesno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlibaba Cloud PolarDBDatastax EnterpriseSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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PolarDB, previously ApsaraDB for PolarDB, is a cloud-native relational database designed...
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DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Webinar: Top Scientists Live: Tech Secrets to Double 11's Success Revealed. White...
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Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Creating a Robust Cloud-Based Database for Fintech, E-Commerce and Gaming. Learn...
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Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Specification and pricing. You can use either of the following billing methods to...
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