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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.57
Rank	#60	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#6	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	3.79
Rank	#74	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

terminusdb.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Aerospike

DataChemist Ltd.

Timescale

Initial release

2012

2018

2017

Current release

7.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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 Consistency in local cluster configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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News

Aerospike Year-over-Year Recurring Revenue Soars by 51% as Demand for AI Rises
4 September 2024

Aerospike Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies in America for Third Consecutive Year
20 August 2024

BSV Association and Aerospike Achieve 100 Billion BSV Blockchain Transactions Per Day on Teranode
30 July 2024

Aerospike Appoints Venkatesh Guntur as Country Head for Southeast Asia
25 June 2024

Aerospike, AWS, Google, Glean, and other Industry Leaders Speaking at Real-time Data Summit 2024
5 June 2024

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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

BAE Systems and Aerospike collaborate to accelerate future real-time data solutions for the U.S. Army
22 October 2024, BAE Systems

BAE, Aerospike Partner to Support Army Mission Needs
23 October 2024, ExecutiveBiz

Aerospike Cloud: Scalable Real-time Database-as-a-Service with AWS SaaS Factory Support
5 July 2024, AWS Blog

BAE Systems and Aerospike Collaborate to Accelerate Future Real-Time Data Solutions for the U.S. Army
22 October 2024, Marketscreener.com

Aerospike Year-over-Year Recurring Revenue Soars by 51% as Demand for AI Rises
5 September 2024, Datanami

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Trinity College spinout TerminusDB secures €3.6m in investment
15 March 2021, The Irish Times

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General availability: Latest version of the TimeScaleDB extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
8 May 2024, Microsoft

TimescaleDB for Azure Database for PostgreSQL to power IoT and time-series workloads
18 March 2019, Microsoft

Timescale Valuation Rockets to Over $1B with $110M Round, Marking the Explosive Rise of Time-Series Data
22 February 2022, Business Wire

Timescale grabs $40M Series B as it goes all in on cloud version of time series database
5 May 2021, TechCrunch

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31 July 2019, DataDrivenInvestor

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