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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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	6.78
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#8	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#336	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.98
Rank	#156	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

aerospike.com

bangdb.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

bangdb.com/developer

docs.stardog.com

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2010

Current release

6.0.0.0, April 2022

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.3.0, May 2020

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

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

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++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via event handlers

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

none

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 in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

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

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Stardog is an Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform, uniquely combining graph storage...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Stardog provides a full featureset to aid in data integration for your complex data....
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Stardog is frequently used for: Supply chain optimization Operational Risk Digital...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Bosch, NASA, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cisco, Schneider Electric, FINRA and more — https://www.stardog.com/customers/
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Stardog's technology is based on ground-breaking research by our founders cited 10,000+...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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You can start for free! It’s easy to get started using Stardog’s leading Enterprise...
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