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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. H2GIS vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Spatial extension of H2

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.05
Rank	#62	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.h2gis.org

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Aerospike

CNRS

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

Current release

7.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

based on H2

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
17 March 2020, Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike (sponsor)

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Recent citations in the news

Aerospike Awarded a 2024 AWS Partner Award
3 December 2024, GlobeNewswire

Aerospike Cloud: Scalable Real-time Database-as-a-Service with AWS SaaS Factory Support
5 July 2024, AWS Blog

BAE Systems, Aerospike to Advance Real-Time Data Capabilities for US DoD
29 October 2024, The Defense Post

Aerospike adds new vector search capabilities to database
11 December 2024, TechTarget

BAE Systems and Aerospike collaborate to accelerate future real-time data solutions for the U.S. Army
22 October 2024, BAE Systems

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