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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Google Cloud Spanner

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Google Cloud Spanner

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeRelational 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
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorybigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorecloud.google.com/­spanner
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.bigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeAtos Convergence CreatorsBigObject, Inc.GoogleGoogle
Initial release20122016201520172017
Current release7.0, November 20231703
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
LDAPfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages with LDAP bindingsGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoLuayes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infocell divisionnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/ReducenoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsAtomic execution of specific operationsnoyesACID infoStrict serializable isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyLDAP bind authenticationnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAtos Standard Common RepositoryBigObjectGoogle Cloud FirestoreGoogle Cloud Spanner
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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