Item: Aerospike
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aerospike is used to perform low-latency looks-up on our edge servers. Data is replicated out from a central cloud based cluster out to bare metal to mitigate costs. The low latency reads and ability to handle high volume writes with minimal errors is enormous in our industry.

Pros and Cons

Low latency
Stable
Highly configurable
increasing features

AQL is pretty limited and not as useful as the java client
Documentation can be lacking for some products
replication configuration is complicated

Return on Investment

Low latency leads to immediate increases in revenue
flexible data structures lead to cost savings in the cloud

Alternatives Considered

MongoDB

Aerospike is much more performant than MongoDB, however there is much greater community adoption and support for mongo

Key Insights

Do you think Aerospike delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Aerospike's feature set?

Yes

Did Aerospike live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Aerospike go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Aerospike again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Apache Kafka

Usability

Main Aerospike features are fairly straight forward, additional features are a little rough around the edges.

Support Rating

You pay for the level of support.

Likelihood to Recommend

Aerospike preforms great as an ultra low latency key value lookup, the java client is very robust and leads to easy development. I would say the additional/newer products specifically the kafka connector are rough around the edges for development but do blend nicely into the big data landscape.

Super low latency NoSQL database with up and coming features

Overall Satisfaction with Aerospike Database