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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Snowflake

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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 networksBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.bigchaindb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeAtos Convergence CreatorsMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122016201620102014
Current release7.0, November 20231703V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaPythonC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyesyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
LDAPCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages with LDAP bindingsGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infocell divisionShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factoryes, with always 3 replicas availableyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenonono
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 configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyLDAP bind authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAtos Standard Common RepositoryBigchainDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureSnowflake
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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15 November 2023

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