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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. InfinityDB vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. InfinityDB vs. MonetDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Databasedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comhive.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHypertable Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.MonetDB BV
Initial release20122012200920022004
Current release7.0, November 20233.1.3, April 20220.9.8.11, March 20164.0Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafHiveHypertableInfinityDBMonetDB
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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