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Name

Description

Real-time database for speed, scale, and savings. Millisecond latency for mixed read/write workloads. Highly distributed. Proven strong consistency. Distributed ACID Transactions. Flash optimized for low cost of ownership and scalability. Aerospike Database is a shared-nothing, multi-threaded, multi-model data platform designed to operate efficiently on a cluster of server nodes, exploiting modern hardware and network technologies to drive reliably fast performance, at sub-millisecond speeds across petabytes of data.

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	5.23
Rank	#59	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	14.04
Rank	#38	Overall
	#5	Document stores
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.couchbase.com

Technical documentation

aerospike.com/docs
docs.aerospike.com

docs.couchbase.com

Developer

Aerospike

Couchbase, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2011

Current release

8.0, February 2025

Server: 7.6, March 2024; Mobile: 3.3, August 2024; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), September 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source, Commercial

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Aerospike Cloud: aerospike.com/products/aerospike-cloud

Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

via Trino Connector or JDBC driver

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
REST
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C# (.NET)
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Auto-Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Strong Consistency in local cluster configuration. Also supports single cluster deployments with strong consistency across multiple AZs and Regions.

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic Distributed ACID transactions execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

LDAP external authentication: aerospike.com/docs/server/operations/configure/security/ldap
Mutual TLS authentication (PKI auth): aerospike.com/docs/server/operations/configure/network/tls
Password authentication: aerospike.com/docs/server/operations/configure/security/access-control

with Enterprise Edition only
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): aerospike.com/docs/graph/security/access-control
Access rights for users and roles

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
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Recent citations in the news

Latest Aerospike database update prioritizes performance
5 February 2025, TechTarget

Aerospike Named Graph Database of the Year in the 2025 Data Breakthrough Awards
15 April 2025, citybiz

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5 February 2025, SiliconANGLE

Aerospike Vector Search adds self-healing live indexes
16 December 2024, InfoWorld

Aerospike Debuts High-Performance Distributed ACID Transactions
5 February 2025, The New Stack

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