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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. IBM Cloudant vs. searchxml vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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
#2  Vector DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014informationpartners gmbhTranswarp
Initial release201220102015
Current release7.1, May 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyesnono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possiblemultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafIBM CloudantsearchxmlTranswarp KunDB
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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News

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15 May 2024

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7 May 2024

Aerospike Closes $109M in Growth Capital from Sumeru Equity Partners
4 April 2024

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