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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

aerospike.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.citusdata.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.citusdata.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

Current release

7.1, May 2024

8.1, December 2018

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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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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