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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Cassandra vs. Hazelcast

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Websiteaerospike.comallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftcassandra.apache.orghazelcast.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latesthazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeFranz Inc.Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookHazelcast
Initial release20122004201220082008
Current release7.0, November 20238.0, December 20234.1.3, July 20235.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCCJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobulk load of XML files possiblenonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions infoin Pythonnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingwith FederationShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectRole-based access control
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAllegroGraphAmazon RedshiftCassandraHazelcast
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Apache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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