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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Apache Doris vs. LevelDB vs. Lovefield vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	6.10
Rank	#59	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#237	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

github.com/google/leveldb

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2017

2011

2014

2000

Current release

7.0, November 2023

1.2.2, February 2023

1.23, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

3.45.2 (12 March 2024), March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
MySQL client

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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 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

Aerospike Listed as Sample Vendor in Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data Management, 2023
24 October 2023

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