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Aerospike is the real-time state, context, and decisioning platform for operational AI, helping enterprises ground intelligence in the current reality of their business and turn it into action at scale. More than 2 billion people worldwide interact with applications built on Aerospike. Organizations across AI, financial services, telecom, and adtech, including AMD, Mistral AI, and PayPal, rely on Aerospike to ground their most demanding real-time systems in current enterprise reality. To learn more, visit aerospike.com.

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3 months

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21 months

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What is Aerospike, and what problem is it built to solve?

Aerospike is a real-time NoSQL database designed to handle large volumes of data with very low latency. Its hybrid memory architecture uses RAM and flash storage to support high-speed, scalable applications that need rapid reads and writes.

What languages does Aerospike support?

Aerospike supports 1 language: English.

What company sizes and industries is Aerospike the best fit for?

Aerospike appears to suit a range of team sizes, with positive user experience concentrated in mid-market and enterprise organizations. Marketing and advertising, financial services, and technology-related industries are also well represented.

Mid-market: Teams with 51–1,000 employees.
Enterprise: Teams with more than 1,000 employees.
Small business: Smaller teams are represented as well.
Industries: Marketing and advertising, financial services, and information technology and software.

How long does it take to implement Aerospike across a team?

Implementation timelines vary, but under a month is the most common reported range. Teams also report go-live periods spanning several months or longer.

Time to go live	Relative frequency
Under 1 month, including under 1 day	Most common
1–3 months	Also frequently reported
3–6 months	Also reported
6–12 months or more	Reported less often

What customer support options does Aerospike provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Aerospike provides support through email/help desk, phone, and chat, with 24/7 live-rep support. The support experience is described as responsive and knowledgeable, including help with setup and data modeling; some users find community resources or documentation less helpful for resolving technical questions.

What is the experience like for teams switching to Aerospike from another tool?

Switching to Aerospike has been driven by the need for better performance, reliability, and scalability as existing databases or caches reached their limits. The transition is described as manageable in some cases, though data-model changes and migration planning can take work.

Prior database platforms: MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, and other NoSQL databases.
Prior caches and managed services: Redis, Memcached, and DynamoDB.
What changed: Users describe faster reads and writes, improved stability at scale, and less operational effort.

What features or capabilities could make Aerospike even more useful?

Aerospike could be more useful with clearer operational visibility and more flexible tools for inspecting and managing data. Users also point to opportunities to make some day-to-day administration and development tasks smoother.

Monitoring and administration: Add more detailed health and usage metrics, including clearer cluster and set-level visibility.
Querying and data inspection: Make it easier to limit query results and inspect records without relying on external tools.
Configuration and operations: Expand the options that can be changed dynamically and simplify common cluster-management tasks.

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Adarsh S.

Senior Database Engineer

Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/12/2016

"Best Nosql Data Store which provides performance at scale"

4/5

What do you like best about Aerospike?

Aerospike is well optimized to use SSD performance. The only thing needed is proper capacity planning and your production environment will be pretty stable. We have around 20-30TB data store in Aerospike. Here are below points which is like most about it :-

1. With a peak of 300-400k TPS, 99% of incoming requests is still finishing in < 1-2ms. I believe it is the fastest Nosql Data store till date.

2. Cluster Setup is very easy.

3. Absolute Zero Maintenance as compared with Cassandra or Hbase

4. Easy to Monitor the cluster health and performance.

5. Enterprise Support is pretty good.

6. Version Upgrades is a very seamless process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aerospike?

However, there are many things which are work in progress in Aerospike:

1. Migrations: Migration is an activity that comes into action to balance and redistribute data when a node goes down and leaves the cluster. It can happen due to network issues or system level bugs which results in a service down time on that server. It is an expensive operation as it directly impacts the performance with a spike in latencies. This is further complicated as even latest Aerospike version is not smart enough to understand the difference between a manual service restart and a node going down.

2. Namespace Addition Needs Downtime: Namespace in Aerospike is an equivalent term to database in RDBMS. We have many different applications which are using their respective namespaces in production. Any new namespace addition is not dynamic until now and it requires a service restart on all nodes in the cluster.

3. Isolation at Namespace Level: For better and stable production environment, we must have better control of all the key metrics that are critical and need special attention. As of now, we can monitor all the TPS at cluster level but we cannot determine how many TPS are happening at namespace level. Also, there is no method by which we can isolate or put constraints at namespace level in terms of number of read/write activities that can happen at any namespace. We have faced situations in production where TPS spike in one less critical namespace impacts the performance of all other namespaces.

4. IP tracking in Connections: Aerospike provides a security feature in Enterprise Version where we can enable security on our distributed cluster but we cannot track the client hostname or IP from where connection is coming. Having this will help us to narrow down our search to identify hostname which is generating too many connections.

5. XDR Limitations: XDR Replication is a feature available in Enterprise Aerospike which allows us to replicate from one datacenter to another. But, it is not possible to enable any security while XDR is enabled in the cluster. Also, XDR cannot replicate updates at bin level and it replicates the whole record again increasing inefficiency at network level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Aerospike:

Definitely yes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aerospike solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving one of the biggest problems of mobile advertising industry. Scale of data is directly proportional to the number of smart phone devices across the world. Aerospike is providing us faster performance at a bigger scale to solve the larger problems of one of the fastest growing tech companies in the advertising world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stewart H.

Principle Engineer

Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/28/2016

"Fast, flexible datastore"

4/5

What do you like best about Aerospike?

The speed. We replaced a MongoDB with this and pound for pound, it was much faster. We performed a couple month evaluation of this versus a few alternative databases. We ended up picking Cassandra after all was said and done because the support was better at the time. It looks like now though Aerospoke has a pretty solid enterprise support plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aerospike?

I didn't have anything that I disliked overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Aerospike:

Know the trade-offs that Aerospike or any database vendor has made prior to biting the bullet. We almost pulled the trigger on this one just to find out that there were some pretty significant issues in the waiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aerospike solving and how is that benefiting you?

Well at the time, we were trying to scale up our data ingestion rate while avoiding data loss. This solution was very fast but then this happened during our evaluation:

https://aphyr.com/posts/324-jepsen-aerospike

I believe that they have since fixed some of the issues noted if not all. Given our criteria though, we were unable to select this store, no matter how fast it was. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankur g.

Lead Software Engineer

Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/12/2016

"Aerospike performance"

4/5

What do you like best about Aerospike?

My use case was to support billions hits a day and with response time of 2-3 ms. Nosql was obvious choice but After exploring several databases we zeroed into aerospike becasue it is :

-Extremely fast (could support >1 Million TPS on a single node)

-Its failover mechanism i.e. Automatic fail-overs

-Support large requests of read and write simultaneously.

-Horizontally scalable. Server side clustering. Sharded & replicated data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aerospike?

Not much to dislike but if to mention there few things like:

-Maintaining a cluster for early age startup

-In case of very large writes we needed to move to large computing machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Frédéric C.

Web Developer

Computer Games

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/8/2016

"Promising, but clients not mature enough"

3/5

What do you like best about Aerospike?

Aerospike is pretty fast. One of the fastest - and easy to configure- tuple-based db. It has great use cases like caching service or storage for small ugc objects. It scales easily and performs like magic on SSD drives! The methods are generic and you find all the options you look for in a database. There are clients written in almost every popular languages. The support is pretty good, documentation is available and community managers are friendly and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aerospike?

The clients - especially the node one- have been half-assed. There is no JS implementation for the node one nor post-install script to get the binaries. Logs were thrown in stdout freely and DB options were not available. It's a real pain for DevOps teams. I've seen a lot of progress though since I sent my recommendations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Aerospike:

Make sure to subscribe to their forums. They have a very active and friendly community. I'm confident that they get solid client implementations by Q2-Q3 2016. I think it's still worth it to simply try it and benchmark it within your application, see the gains you'll be getting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aerospike solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a caching database or technology, so we decided to try out Aerospike. This was summer of 2015. We did not have time to prepare our DevOps team, start fiddling to add stuff and patching the unwanted stuff out. So we went with a safer bet. During our tests though, we noticed a great increase in request speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Moshe R.

Software Developer

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/8/2016

"Aerospike is the best key-value store of all time."

5/5

What do you like best about Aerospike?

Data can be held on-disk (as well as in-memory) and Aerospike still performs incredibly fast on a single node. This is huge. I can't stress this enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aerospike?

The Go library isn't well documented in some areas (especially errors), and while Aerospike's documentation is great, it still needs some work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Aerospike:

If you need a really fast key-value store for caching, Aerospike is my recommendation. It's so fast on a single node, you might not need another one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aerospike solving and how is that benefiting you?

Caching large data-sets, I prefer not to hold everything in RAM since RAM is expensive. Aerospike lets me hold my large data-sets on SSD and query them amazingly fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meng Z.

MTS1

Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/14/2016

"Great product, cool features and worth to have a try"

5/5

What do you like best about Aerospike?

easy to use. Not just saying, Aerospike is easy to config and setup.

active official forum support

support server-side script, like HBase co-processor

simple and stable

support TTL

support durable and non-durable

Using hash id as key distributes requests to the whole cluster and the cluster has NO HOT POINT. Adding capacity can simply resolves the throughput problem.

Not like redis, Aerospike supports multi core by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aerospike?

the tool is pool, including the web-ui, command line.

more powerful administration support

cluster size is limited to hundreds.

all keys must be loaded to memory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pablo Francisco P.

Scala/BigData Developer

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/14/2016

"Explored as a candidate to be integrated in a centralized data source access library"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Aerospike?

Having performance in mind I like the fact that despite its written in C it can be seamlessly used from the JVM which promotes its use in Big Data solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aerospike?

Key-Value databases are not the best fit for aggregation intensive requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Aerospike:

Its DDL and query language is quite SQL Like, resembling somehow the one of C*. That makes it easy to adapt applications to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aerospike solving and how is that benefiting you?

My experience using is limited to a spike on how to integrate it with the platform I've been working with. And I have used it with its default settings as found in the official docker image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Etienne B.

Self-employed Webdeveloper

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/16/2016

"Easy to setup, not the best for my usage"

4/5

What do you like best about Aerospike?

Easy to setup; Easy to scale; Pretty well-documented; Helpful support staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aerospike?

No (easy) way to "auto-increment" any integer value. No security at all on the Community Edition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Aerospike:

Ask yourself this: is my application the only application able to access the servers? If not: am I willing to pay for the Enterprise Edition? If not: Aerospike might not be for you (security-wise). Other than that, Aerospike had nice performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aerospike solving and how is that benefiting you?

When adding items to the database, which just require any unique identifier, Aerospike is awesome. However, when you need an incrementing number as a unique identifier, things start to get tricky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ng Z.

Business Solutions

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/26/2016

"Aerospike. Unparallel performance"

5/5

What do you like best about Aerospike?

Performance is as advertised. With Lua, the flexibility becomes limitless. After a while, everything just works alright in the background, and I do not have to bother the guys. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aerospike?

If it crashes, I don't know how to recover from it. It crashed once, I think I exceeded the max size of a record Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/16/2016

"Aerospike is dope"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Aerospike?

The configuration enables you to choose the performance trade-offs that are acceptable. I was originally exposed to aerospike while working on a sub-second response time system (100 millis max). However, I used it a less-strict setting and it was still performant out of the box in testing (still haven't deployed to production yet). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aerospike?

I like the custom query coprocessors, but I don't like how I have to write them in Lua Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.