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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. IRONdb vs. KeyDB vs. LokiJS

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument 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
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteaerospike.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.keydb.devtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeCirconus LLC.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release2012201720192014
Current release7.0, November 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramspartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesno
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 indexesyesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayes, in LuaLuaView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
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 configurationImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynosimple password-based access control and ACLno
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafIRONdbKeyDBLokiJS
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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