DBMS > Aerospike vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Interbase vs. LevelDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Interbase vs. LevelDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series 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

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

aerospike.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/leveldb

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Embarcadero

Google

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

1984

2011

2012

Current release

7.0, November 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

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
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

Interbase Change Views

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

simple authentication-based access control

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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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