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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Rockset vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaerospike.comrockset.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.rockset.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeRocksetSiteWhereSnowflake Computing Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20122019201020142019
Current release7.0, November 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++JavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesdynamic typingyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 infoingestion from XML files supportednoyesno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTHTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on HBaseyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafRocksetSiteWhereSnowflakeXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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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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