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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. DuckDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NSDb

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comduckdb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantnsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comduckdb.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantnsdb.io/­Architecture
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2012201820102017
Current release7.0, November 20230.10, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++ErlangJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lesshostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynoAccess rights for users can be defined per database
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafDuckDBIBM CloudantNSDb
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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