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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.34
Rank	#62	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	25.00
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

hbase.apache.org

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Aerospike

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2012

2008

2017

Current release

7.1, May 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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DB-Engines blog posts

Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
17 March 2020, Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike (sponsor)

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