DBMS > Aerospike vs. BigchainDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. BigchainDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Spatial extension of SQLite

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.51
Rank	#60	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#6	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Alessandro Furieri

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2016

2008

2012

2000

Current release

7.1, May 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

yes

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

Aerospike a Winner in 2024 Business Sustainability Awards
22 May 2024

New Aerospike Release Lets Enterprises Consolidate Expensive Legacy Cache And Database Platforms
15 May 2024

Aerospike Recognized by Independent Research Firm Among Notable Vendors in Vector Databases Report
7 May 2024

Aerospike Closes $109M in Growth Capital from Sumeru Equity Partners
4 April 2024

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