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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	5.78
Rank	#61	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.eventstore.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

developers.eventstore.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Event Store Limited

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

1989

2008

Current release

7.0, November 2023

21.2, February 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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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 a Winner in 2024 Business Sustainability Awards
22 May 2024

New Aerospike Release Lets Enterprises Consolidate Expensive Legacy Cache And Database Platforms
15 May 2024

Aerospike Recognized by Independent Research Firm Among Notable Vendors in Vector Databases Report
7 May 2024

Aerospike Closes $109M in Growth Capital from Sumeru Equity Partners
4 April 2024

Aerospike Achieves the new AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency
30 November 2023

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