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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. SingleStore vs. Yaacomo

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverprometheus.iowww.singlestore.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverprometheus.io/­docsdocs.singlestore.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeMicrosoftSingleStore Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20121989201520132009
Current release7.0, November 2023SQL Server 2022, November 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++GoC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.noyesno infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP/JSON APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuaTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingSharding infohash partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafMicrosoft SQL ServerPrometheusSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLYaacomo
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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