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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Apache Druid vs. Geode vs. Memcached vs. Quasardb

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comdruid.apache.orggeode.apache.orgwww.memcached.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgeode.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­master
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeApache Software Foundation and contributorsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalquasardb
Initial release20122012200220032009
Current release7.0, November 202329.0.1, April 20241.1, February 20171.6.25, March 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnoyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights per client and object definableyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafApache DruidGeodeMemcachedQuasardb
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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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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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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