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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Bangdb vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.16
Rank	#63	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

docs.bangdb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

surrealdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Splunk Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2003

2022

Current release

7.1, May 2024

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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News

Aerospike Year-over-Year Recurring Revenue Soars by 51% as Demand for AI Rises
4 September 2024

Aerospike Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies in America for Third Consecutive Year
20 August 2024

BSV Association and Aerospike Achieve 100 Billion BSV Blockchain Transactions Per Day on Teranode
30 July 2024

Aerospike Appoints Venkatesh Guntur as Country Head for Southeast Asia
25 June 2024

Aerospike, AWS, Google, Glean, and other Industry Leaders Speaking at Real-time Data Summit 2024
5 June 2024

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DB-Engines blog posts

Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
17 March 2020, Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike (sponsor)

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Enterprise Search Engines almost double their popularity in the last 12 months
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Recent citations in the news

Aerospike: Interview With CEO Subbu Iyer About The Real-Time Database Scaling Company
23 September 2024, Pulse 2.0

Aerospike Cloud: Scalable Real-time Database-as-a-Service with AWS SaaS Factory Support
5 July 2024, AWS Blog

Aerospike raises $109M for its real-time database platform to capitalize on the AI boom
4 April 2024, TechCrunch

Aerospike Year-over-Year Recurring Revenue Soars by 51% as Demand for AI Rises
5 September 2024, Datanami

Aerospike set to grow real time database for AI with $109M raise
4 April 2024, VentureBeat

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17 September 2024, Business Wire

SurrealDB is helping developers consolidate their databases
18 June 2024, TechCrunch

Multi-model database startup SurrealDB raises $20M and announces cloud beta access
18 June 2024, SiliconANGLE News

SurrealDB Raises $20M To Disrupt Big Data Industry
20 June 2024, Datanami

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