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Name

Description

Real-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 stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.22
Rank	#60	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#304	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#339	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#33	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

bangdb.com

Technical documentation

aerospike.com/docs

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.bangdb.com

Developer

Aerospike

Alibaba

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Initial release

2012

Current release

8.0, February 2025

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source, Commercial

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Aerospike Cloud: aerospike.com/products/aerospike-cloud

Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

via Trino Connector or JDBC driver

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
REST
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C# (.NET)
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Auto-Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Distributed ACID transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

LDAP 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

with Enterprise Edition only
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): aerospike.com/docs/graph/security/access-control
Access rights for users and roles

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes (enterprise version only)

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More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
17 March 2020, Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike (sponsor)

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Recent citations in the news

Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike
13 February 2025, The Register

Latest Aerospike database update prioritizes performance
5 February 2025, TechTarget

Aerospike says it has achieved a milestone in NoSQL OLTP performance
5 February 2025, SiliconANGLE News

Aerospike Debuts High-Performance Distributed ACID Transactions
5 February 2025, The New Stack

BAE Systems, Aerospike to Advance Real-Time Data Capabilities for US DoD
29 October 2024, The Defense Post

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Revolutionizing Success in the Time Series Database(TSDB)
7 March 2025, openPR

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