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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Faircom DB vs. Kdb vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.16
Rank	#63	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	7.73
Rank	#45	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

kx.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

code.kx.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

FairCom Corporation

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2012

1979

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1995

Current release

7.1, May 2024

V13, July 2024

3.6, May 2018

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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upon request
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News

Aerospike Year-over-Year Recurring Revenue Soars by 51% as Demand for AI Rises
4 September 2024

Aerospike Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies in America for Third Consecutive Year
20 August 2024

BSV Association and Aerospike Achieve 100 Billion BSV Blockchain Transactions Per Day on Teranode
30 July 2024

Aerospike Appoints Venkatesh Guntur as Country Head for Southeast Asia
25 June 2024

Aerospike, AWS, Google, Glean, and other Industry Leaders Speaking at Real-time Data Summit 2024
5 June 2024

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