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DBMS > Aerospike vs. CrateDB vs. MarkLogic vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. CrateDB vs. MarkLogic vs. SurrealDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseDistributed Database based on LuceneOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.16
Rank#63  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#11  Vector DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#70  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comcratedb.comwww.progress.com/­marklogicsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comcratedb.com/­docswww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeCrateMarkLogic Corp.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012201320012022
Current release7.1, May 20245.8.1, August 202411.0, December 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infoSQL92SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functions (Javascript)yes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
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.yesnoyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyrights management via user accountsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes, based on authentication and database rules
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafCrateDBMarkLogicSurrealDB
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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News

Aerospike Year-over-Year Recurring Revenue Soars by 51% as Demand for AI Rises
4 September 2024

Aerospike Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies in America for Third Consecutive Year
20 August 2024

BSV Association and Aerospike Achieve 100 Billion BSV Blockchain Transactions Per Day on Teranode
30 July 2024

Aerospike Appoints Venkatesh Guntur as Country Head for Southeast Asia
25 June 2024

Aerospike, AWS, Google, Glean, and other Industry Leaders Speaking at Real-time Data Summit 2024
5 June 2024

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Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
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Conferences, events and webinars

Progress MarkLogic World
Washington DC, 23-25 September 2024

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Aerospike Cloud: Scalable Real-time Database-as-a-Service with AWS SaaS Factory Support
5 July 2024, AWS Blog

Aerospike raises $109M for its real-time database platform to capitalize on the AI boom
4 April 2024, TechCrunch

Aerospike Year-over-Year Recurring Revenue Soars by 51% as Demand for AI Rises
5 September 2024, Datanami

Aerospike set to grow real time database for AI with $109M raise
4 April 2024, VentureBeat

Aerospike Raises $109M For Accelerated Database Development, Market Expansion
4 April 2024, CRN

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CrateDB Appoints Jeff Olson as New CRO
9 July 2024, PR Newswire

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Taleo Consulting and CrateDB Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform Data Management and Analytics in Financial Services markets
29 July 2024, PR Newswire

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CrateDB Appoints Sergey Gerasimenko as New CTO
19 February 2024, PR Newswire

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Progress Software announces speaker lineup for MarkLogic World Tour US
18 September 2024, TipRanks

Progress Brings Industry Leaders Together to Share Insights on AI and Data at MarkLogic World Tour US 2024
18 September 2024, Progress Investor Relations

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Progress Introduces MarkLogic FastTrack, Helping Organizations Harness the Power of Connected Data
23 July 2024, Yahoo Finance

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SurrealDB Delivers Future-Ready Database Technology for Developers and Enterprises with Release of SurrealDB 2.0
17 September 2024, Business Wire

SurrealDB is helping developers consolidate their databases
18 June 2024, TechCrunch

Multi-model database startup SurrealDB raises $20M and announces cloud beta access
18 June 2024, SiliconANGLE News

SurrealDB Raises $20M To Disrupt Big Data Industry
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18 June 2024, PR Newswire

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