DBMS > Aerospike vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	5.78
Rank	#61	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Transaction Software GmbH

Transwarp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1987

2011

Current release

7.0, November 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

OpenCypher

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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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 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

Aerospike Achieves the new AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency
30 November 2023

Aerospike Showcases New Levels of Database Performance, Price, and Sustainability on Graviton3 at AWS re:Invent
28 November 2023

Aerospike Database 7 Delivers Enterprise Resiliency, Scale, and Speed to In-memory Database Workloads
15 November 2023

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