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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Bangdb vs. EXASOL vs. OpenQM vs. PostgreSQL

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
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
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score645.54
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.combangdb.comwww.exasol.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.bangdb.comwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.postgresql.org/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeSachin Sinha, BangDBExasolRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20122012200019931989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release7.0, November 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20213.4-1216.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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.nononoyesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolyesnoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanouser defined functionsyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingyespartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
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 accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDACIDACIDACID
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 modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafBangdbEXASOLOpenQM infoalso called QMPostgreSQL
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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