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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Couchbase vs. Hazelcast vs. Memgraph vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial 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

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	5.78
Rank	#61	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

docs.couchbase.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

memgraph.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Couchbase, Inc.

Hazelcast

Memgraph Ltd

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2011

2008

2017

2015

Current release

7.0, November 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

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

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

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

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

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 Consistency in local cluster configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

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

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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News

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