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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Apache Impala vs. CouchDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Apache Impala vs. CouchDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.16
Rank#63  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score52.67
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comimpala.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigqueryopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablecloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20122013200520102011
Current release7.1, May 20244.1.0, June 20223.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datano
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)no
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafApache ImpalaCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"Google BigQueryOpenTSDB
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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News

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4 September 2024

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20 August 2024

BSV Association and Aerospike Achieve 100 Billion BSV Blockchain Transactions Per Day on Teranode
30 July 2024

Aerospike Appoints Venkatesh Guntur as Country Head for Southeast Asia
25 June 2024

Aerospike, AWS, Google, Glean, and other Industry Leaders Speaking at Real-time Data Summit 2024
5 June 2024

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