DBMS > Aerospike vs. CrateDB vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. CrateDB vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Distributed Database based on Lucene

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.51
Rank	#60	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#6	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

cratedb.com/docs

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Crate

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2013

Current release

7.1, May 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

user defined functions (Javascript)

Erlang

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

selectable replication factor

yes

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 Consistency in local cluster configuration

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing models

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

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

Aerospike a Winner in 2024 Business Sustainability Awards
22 May 2024

New Aerospike Release Lets Enterprises Consolidate Expensive Legacy Cache And Database Platforms
15 May 2024

Aerospike Recognized by Independent Research Firm Among Notable Vendors in Vector Databases Report
7 May 2024

Aerospike Closes $109M in Growth Capital from Sumeru Equity Partners
4 April 2024

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