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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Geode vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesServerless Time Series DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteaerospike.comgeode.apache.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Hyprcubd, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release201220022010
Current release7.0, November 20231.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaGoErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringno
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsyes, on a single nodenono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoOptimistic locking
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights per client and object definabletoken accessAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafGeodeHyprcubdIBM Cloudant
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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