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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HBase vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HBase vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA 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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeMultivalue DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websiteaerospike.comcloud.google.com/­spannerhbase.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Microsoft
Initial release20122017200819912012
Current release7.0, November 20232.3.4, January 20215.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROoptionalyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACID infoStrict serializable isolationSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafGoogle Cloud SpannerHBasejBASEMicrosoft Azure Table Storage
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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