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DBMS > Aerospike vs. CockroachDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. CockroachDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Trafodion

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational 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
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteaerospike.comwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanttrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeCockroach LabsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2012201520102014
Current release7.0, November 202324.1.0, May 20242.3.0, February 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 availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGoErlangC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.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#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyesno
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 RAFTShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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 onlyRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafCockroachDBIBM CloudantTrafodion
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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