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DBMS > Aerospike vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.16
Rank#63  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.65
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comquasar.airocksdb.orgtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikitypedb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikequasardbFacebook, Inc.Vaticle
Initial release2012200920132016
Current release7.1, May 20243.14.1, January 20249.4.0, June 20242.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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 indexesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioningno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducewith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafQuasardbRocksDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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