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DBMS > Aerospike vs. BoltDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. BoltDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseAn embedded key-value store for Go.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.hawkular.orgobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.objectbox.io
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeCommunity supported by Red HatObjectBox Limited
Initial release2012201320142017
Current release7.0, 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 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGoJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTProprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
GoGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanonono
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynonoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafBoltDBHawkular MetricsObjectBox
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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