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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Drizzle

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.54
Rank#65  Overall
#12  Document stores
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaerospike.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker
Initial release20122008
Current release6.0.0.0, April 20227.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGNU GPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luano
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACID
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTP
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafDrizzle
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 Expands Community Leadership and Enterprise Support for Spring Framework
21 March 2023

Aerospike Again Selected for Prestigious 2023 Inc. 5000 Regionals
8 March 2023

Reducing Costs and Cutting CO2 emissions – Aerospike Explores the Vital Role of a Real-Time Data Platform at Big Data & AI World
6 March 2023

Real-time Data Platform Leader Releases Aerospike Connect for Elasticsearch
18 January 2023

Aerospike 6 on AWS Graviton2 Delivers 1.6x Improvement in Price-Performance
16 November 2022

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Aerospike targets Java Spring devs with support for the popular framework
22 March 2023, The Register

Reducing Costs and Cutting CO2 emissions - Aerospike Explores the Vital Role of a Real-Time Data Platform at Big Data & AI World
6 March 2023, Yahoo Finance

Aerospike Again Selected for Prestigious 2023 Inc. 5000 Regionals
8 March 2023, GlobeNewswire

How Aerospike Document Database supports real-time applications
14 February 2023, InfoWorld

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17 March 2023, The New Stack

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