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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Drizzle vs. Hazelcast vs. KairosDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Drizzle vs. Hazelcast vs. KairosDB vs. Trafodion

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  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.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it 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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comhazelcast.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docskairosdb.github.iotrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHazelcastApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20122008200820132014
Current release7.0, November 20237.2.4, September 20125.3.6, November 20231.2.2, November 20182.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafDrizzleHazelcastKairosDBTrafodion
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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