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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database for speed, scale, and savings. Millisecond latency for mixed read/write workloads. Highly distributed. Proven strong consistency. Distributed ACID Transactions. Flash optimized for low cost of ownership and scalability. Aerospike Database is a shared-nothing, multi-threaded, multi-model data platform designed to operate efficiently on a cluster of server nodes, exploiting modern hardware and network technologies to drive reliably fast performance, at sub-millisecond speeds across petabytes of data.Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.45
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score79.30
Rank#15  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score126.40
Rank#8  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationaerospike.com/­docs
docs.aerospike.com
docs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAerospikeAmazonIBM
Initial release201220121983 infohost version
Current release8.0, February 202512.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source, Commercial infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Aerospike Cloud: aerospike.com/­products/­aerospike-cloud
Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLvia Trino Connector or JDBC drivernoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
REST
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C# (.NET)
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanoyes
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAuto-ShardingShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Strong Consistency in local cluster configuration. Also supports single cluster deployments with strong consistency across multiple AZs and Regions.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic Distributed ACID transactions execution of operationsACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP external authentication: aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­security/­ldap
Mutual TLS authentication (PKI auth): aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­network/­tls
Password authentication: aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­security/­access-control infowith Enterprise Edition only
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): aerospike.com/­docs/­graph/­security/­access-control
Access rights for users and roles
Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAmazon DynamoDBIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2
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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