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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20121983198919942008
Current release7.0, November 202319.4.1, November 2021SQL Server 2022, November 20224.4, October 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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 infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHPC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuayesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanono
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlysimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafFileMakerMicrosoft SQL ServermSQL infoMini SQLSpatiaLite
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

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7 May 2024

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4 April 2024

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