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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Badger vs. Datomic vs. Greenplum vs. OrientDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websiteaerospike.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comgreenplum.orgorientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comdocs.greenplum.orgwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeDGraph LabsCognitectPivotal Software Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20122017201220052010
Current release7.0, November 20231.0.6735, June 20237.0.0, September 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoJava, ClojureJava
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
GoClojure
Java
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanoyes infoTransaction FunctionsyesJava, Javascript
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenonoyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafBadgerDatomicGreenplumOrientDB
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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