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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.54
Rank#65  Overall
#12  Document stores
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#255  Overall
#118  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.kinetica.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeKinetica
Initial release20122012
Current release6.0.0.0, April 20227.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users and roles on table level
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafKinetica
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Native and fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs, with memory first...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Best in class geospatial and temporal analytics. Lockless architecture provides real-time...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Any application requiring (1) real time insights, (2) time series analysis (3) geospatial...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Citibank, US Air Force, Softbank, OVO, Telkomsel, USPS, 2 of the top 3 US Telcos,...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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The largest IoT deployment in the world, NORAD, runs on Kinetica.
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Always Free Tier in the Cloud, Pay-As-You-Go Consumption Based Pricing, and Portable...
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