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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Apache Drill vs. IBM Cloudant vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Apache Drill vs. IBM Cloudant vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comdrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdrill.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeApache Software FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release2012201220102017
Current release7.1, May 20241.20.3, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationnoneEventual ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafApache DrillIBM CloudantYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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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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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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