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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. CockroachDB vs. CouchDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.cockroachlabs.comcouchdb.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeCockroach LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerIBMEmbarcadero
Initial release20122015200520141984
Current release7.0, November 202324.1.0, May 20243.3.3, December 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCGoErlangC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoView functions in JavaScriptPL/SQL, SQL PLyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
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.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafCockroachDBCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInterbase
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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