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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Datastax Enterprise

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-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.DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.23
Rank#59  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score3.94
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Websiteaerospike.comwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprise
Technical documentationaerospike.com/­docs
docs.aerospike.com
docs.datastax.com
DeveloperAerospikeDataStax
Initial release20122011
Current release8.0, February 20256.8, April 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source, Commercial infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Aerospike Cloud: aerospike.com/­products/­aerospike-cloud
Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLvia Trino Connector or JDBC driverSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
REST
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C# (.NET)
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luano
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAuto-ShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual 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.Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic Distributed ACID transactions execution of operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP 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 infowith Enterprise Edition only
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): aerospike.com/­docs/­graph/­security/­access-control
Access rights for users and roles
Access rights for users can be defined per object
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafDatastax Enterprise
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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