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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. MariaDB vs. Newts vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.78
Rank	#61	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

opennms.github.io/newts

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.nuodb.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

OpenNMS Group

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2014

2013

2009

Current release

7.0, November 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

with Hadoop integration

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

Temporary table

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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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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MariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metrics

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MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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News

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4 April 2024

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