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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Apache Pinot vs. Fauna vs. KairosDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.compinot.apache.orgfauna.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.fauna.comkairosdb.github.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeApache Software Foundation and contributorsFauna, Inc.SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20122015201420131994
Current release7.0, November 20231.0.0, September 20231.2.2, November 201816.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on Cassandrashared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/ReducenonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyIdentity management, authentication, and access controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafApache PinotFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBKairosDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
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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