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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Memgraph

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websiteaerospike.combigobject.iocloud.google.com/­spannermemgraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.bigobject.iocloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAerospikeBigObject, Inc.GoogleMemgraph Ltd
Initial release2012201520172017
Current release7.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuaLuano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
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 integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnoACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissions
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafBigObjectGoogle Cloud SpannerMemgraph
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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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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7 May 2024

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4 April 2024

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