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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Ignite

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.51
Rank	#60	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#6	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

iotdb.apache.org

ignite.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

Current release

7.1, May 2024

1.1.0, April 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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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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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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News

Aerospike, AWS, Google, Glean, and other Industry Leaders Speaking at Real-time Data Summit 2024
5 June 2024

Aerospike a Winner in 2024 Business Sustainability Awards
22 May 2024

New Aerospike Release Lets Enterprises Consolidate Expensive Legacy Cache And Database Platforms
15 May 2024

Aerospike Recognized by Independent Research Firm Among Notable Vendors in Vector Databases Report
7 May 2024

Aerospike Closes $109M in Growth Capital from Sumeru Equity Partners
4 April 2024

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