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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Elasticsearch vs. Google Search Appliance

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene info

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

The Google Search Appliance consists of hardware and software for indexing documents in local networks.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	6.21
Rank	#53	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	3.21
Rank	#85	Overall
	#9	Search engines

Score	150.25
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	2.81
Rank	#90	Overall
	#10	Search engines

Website

www.aerospike.com

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch

enterprise.google.com/search/products/gsa.html

Technical documentation

www.aerospike.com/docs

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

support.google.com/gsa

Developer

Aerospike

Amazon

Elastic

Google

Initial release

2012

2010

2002

Current release

4.2.0.4, June 2018

7.3.0, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

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

commercial

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud: Try out the official hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana offering available on AWS and GCP that's powered by the creators of Elasticsearch.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free info

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Administrative API
Browser interface
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

with Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Eventual Consistency info

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users and roles info

with Enterprise Edition only

authentication via encrypted signatures

User authentication via various security protocols

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open source full-text search and analytics engine....
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Open source, real-time index, search and analysis, horizontally scalable, distributed,...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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More than 250 million cumulative downloads More than 100,000 community members in...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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The Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is free and open source...
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