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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PouchDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Widely used in-process key-value storeJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteaerospike.comblueflood.iocouchdb.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122013200519942012
Current release7.0, November 20233.3.3, December 202318.1.40, May 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaErlangC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonono
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoView functions in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafBluefloodCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"Oracle Berkeley DBPouchDB
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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