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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. SpaceTime

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.datomic.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.datomic.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeAlibabaCognitectCCRi and othersMireo
Initial release2012201220142020
Current release7.0, November 20231.0.7075, December 20235.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava, ClojureScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaClojure
Java
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlibaba Cloud TSDBDatomicGeoMesaSpaceTime
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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