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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.51
Rank#59  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.26
Rank#311  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score9.20
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#259  Overall
#41  Document stores
Websiteaerospike.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.esgyn.cngreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeAmazonEsgynPivotal Software Inc.
Initial release20122012201520052014
Current release7.0, November 20237.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++, JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoJava Stored ProceduresyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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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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