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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.combangdb.comcassandra.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.bangdb.comcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP, Sybase
Initial release20122012200820091987
Current release7.0, November 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20214.1.3, July 20233.2.0, December 202216.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++JavaErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanonoErlangJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per objectyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafBangdbCassandraRiak KVSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Apache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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