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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Apache Impala vs. EJDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Titan

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseAnalytic DBMS for HadoopEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websiteaerospike.comimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbmanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdmanual.manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSoftmotionsManticore SoftwareAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122013201220172012
Current release7.0, November 20234.1.0, June 20226.0, February 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 infoGPLv2Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++CC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared libraryBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factornoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafApache ImpalaEJDBManticore SearchTitan
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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