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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. BoltDB vs. Derby vs. Heroic vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseAn embedded key-value store for Go.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­spotify/­heroickyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprise
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeApache Software FoundationSpotifyKyligence, Inc.
Initial release20122013199720142016
Current release7.0, November 202310.17.1.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
GoJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafBoltDBDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBHeroicKyligence Enterprise
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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