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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.16
Rank	#63	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

dgraph.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

dgraph.io/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

IBM

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2004

Current release

7.1, May 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic 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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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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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DB-Engines blog posts

Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
17 March 2020, Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike (sponsor)

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Recent citations in the news

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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Top Open Source Graph Databases
3 June 2024, MarkTechPost

Dgraph on AWS: Setting up a horizontally scalable graph database
1 September 2020, AWS Blog

Graph Database Market size to grow by USD 7.40 billion between 2022 - 2027 | Growth Driven by Lack of standardization and programming flexibility - Technavio
13 December 2023, Yahoo Finance

Dgraph raises $11.5 million for scalable graph database solutions
31 July 2019, VentureBeat

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A major upgrade to Db2® Warehouse on IBM Cloud®
26 June 2024, IBM

Announcing the deprecation of prior generation Db2 Warehouse plans on AWS
16 October 2023, IBM

Data Mining in Db2 Warehouse: the basics
23 June 2020, Towards Data Science

The 10 Best Cloud Data Warehouse Solutions to Consider in 2024
22 October 2023, Solutions Review

Top 7 Cloud Data Warehouse Companies
31 May 2023, Datamation

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MonetDB Foundation launched
31 January 2024, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

PostgreSQL, MonetDB, and Too-Big-for-Memory Data in R — Part I
6 April 2018, Data Science Central

How MonetDB/X100 Exploits Modern CPU Performance
14 January 2020, Towards Data Science

Test of Time Award for paper on vectorized execution
16 January 2024, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

Monet DB The Column-Store Pioneer
4 September 2019, Open Source For You

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