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Name

Description

Real-time database for speed, scale, and savings. Millisecond latency for mixed read/write workloads. Highly distributed. Proven strong consistency. Distributed ACID Transactions. Flash optimized for low cost of ownership and scalability. Aerospike Database is a shared-nothing, multi-threaded, multi-model data platform designed to operate efficiently on a cluster of server nodes, exploiting modern hardware and network technologies to drive reliably fast performance, at sub-millisecond speeds across petabytes of data.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	5.45
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#356	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

nsdb.io

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

aerospike.com/docs
docs.aerospike.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Aerospike

Initial release

2012

2017

2009

Current release

8.0, February 2025

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source, Commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Aerospike Cloud: aerospike.com/products/aerospike-cloud

Implementation language

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

via Trino Connector or JDBC driver

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
REST
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Auto-Sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Strong Consistency in local cluster configuration. Also supports single cluster deployments with strong consistency across multiple AZs and Regions.

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic Distributed ACID transactions execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

LDAP external authentication: aerospike.com/docs/server/operations/configure/security/ldap
Mutual TLS authentication (PKI auth): aerospike.com/docs/server/operations/configure/network/tls
Password authentication: aerospike.com/docs/server/operations/configure/security/access-control

with Enterprise Edition only
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): aerospike.com/docs/graph/security/access-control
Access rights for users and roles

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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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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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DB-Engines blog posts

Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
17 March 2020, Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike (sponsor)

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Recent citations in the news

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7 February 2018, ResearchGate

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