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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. OpenMLDB

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. OpenMLDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database for speed, scale, and savings. Millisecond latency for mixed read/write workloads. Highly distributed. Proven strong consistency. Distributed ACID Transactions. Flash optimized for low cost of ownership and scalability. Aerospike Database is a shared-nothing, multi-threaded, multi-model data platform designed to operate efficiently on a cluster of server nodes, exploiting modern hardware and network technologies to drive reliably fast performance, at sub-millisecond speeds across petabytes of data.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score5.45
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#157  Overall
#27  Key-value stores
Score2.56
Rank#97  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comgeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spanneropenmldb.ai
Technical documentationaerospike.com/­docs
docs.aerospike.com
geode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­main
DeveloperAerospikeOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Google4 Paradigm Inc.
Initial release2012200220172020
Current release8.0, February 20251.1, February 20172024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source, Commercial infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Aerospike Cloud: aerospike.com/­products/­aerospike-cloud
Implementation languageCJavaC++, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLvia Trino Connector or JDBC driverSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
REST
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C# (.NET)
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAuto-ShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Strong Consistency in local cluster configuration. Also supports single cluster deployments with strong consistency across multiple AZs and Regions.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic Distributed ACID transactions execution of operationsyes, on a single nodeACID infoStrict serializable isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP external authentication: aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­security/­ldap
Mutual TLS authentication (PKI auth): aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­network/­tls
Password authentication: aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­security/­access-control infowith Enterprise Edition only
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): aerospike.com/­docs/­graph/­security/­access-control
Access rights for users and roles
Access rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafGeodeGoogle Cloud SpannerOpenMLDB
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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