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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Dragonfly vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Dragonfly vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docskairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeDragonflyDB team and community contributorsKineticaSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122023201320122014
Current release7.0, November 20231.0, March 20231.2.2, November 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++JavaC, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuaLuanouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyPassword-based authenticationsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafDragonflyKairosDBKineticaSnowflake
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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