Aerospike (database)

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Aerospike Database
Developer(s)Aerospike
Initial release2010; 14 years ago (2010)
Stable release
6.0.0.0 / April 27, 2022; 23 months ago (2022-04-27)
Repository
Written in
AGPL
Websitewww.aerospike.com

Aerospike Database is a real-time, high performance NoSQL database. Designed for applications that cannot experience any downtime and require high read & write throughput. Aerospike is optimized to run on NVMe SSDs capable of efficiently storing large datasets (Gigabytes to Petabytes). Aerospike can also be deployed as a fully in-memory cache database. Aerospike offers Key-Value, JSON Document, and Graph data models. Aerospike is open source distributed NoSQL database management system, marketed by the company also named Aerospike.[1]

History

Aerospike was first known as Citrusleaf. In August 2012, the company - which had been providing its database since 2010 - rebranded both the company and software name to Aerospike.

AGPL 3.0 license for the Aerospike database server and the Apache License Version 2.0 for its Aerospike client software development kit.[5][6][7]

Release history

Version First Release Version First Release Date Latest Version Release date Features Ref
Old version, no longer maintained: 3.1 3.1.3 January 2, 2014 3.1.14 February 25, 2014

[8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.2 3.2.0 March 19, 2014 3.2.9 May 12, 2014

[8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.3 3.3.5 June 9, 2014 3.3.26 December 3, 2014

[8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.4 3.4.0 December 8, 2014 3.4.1 January 12, 2015

[8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.5 3.5.2 February 13, 2015 3.5.15 July 15, 2015

[8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.6 3.6.0 August 31, 2015 3.6.4 November 10, 2015

[8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.7 3.7.0 December 10, 2015 3.7.5.1 March 31, 2016
  • Geospatial
    queries
  • Native List data type

[9] [8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.8 3.8.1 April 15, 2016 3.8.4 June 17, 2016
  • Secondary Index on List, Map & Geospatial

[10] [8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.9 3.9.0 July 11, 2016 3.9.1.1 September 2, 2016
  • Rapid Rebalance

[11] [8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.10 3.10.0.3 October 21, 2016 3.10.1.5 January 13, 2017
  • Durable Delete
  • Support IPv6

[12] [8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.11 3.11.0 January 5, 2017 3.11.1.1 February 15, 2017

[13] [8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.12 3.12.0 March 15, 2017 3.12.1.3 July 31, 2017
  • Predicate Filters

[14] [8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.13 3.13.0.1 May 30, 2017 3.13.0.11 April 26, 2018
  • Clustering Layer refactoring
  • Required "Jump" Release before 3.14

[15] [8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.14 3.14.0 June 6, 2017 3.14.1.10 April 26, 2018
  • Clustering Layer refactoring pt. 2

[15] [8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.15 3.15.0.1 October 3, 2017 3.15.1.4 January 3, 2018

[8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 3.16 3.16.0.1 February 21, 2018 3.16.0.6 March 2, 2018

[8]

Old version, no longer maintained: 4.0 4.0.0.1 March 7, 2018 4.0.0.6 September 6, 2018

[16] [17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 4.1 4.1.0.1 May 10, 2018 4.1.0.6 September 6, 2018
  • LDAP
    Support

[18] [17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 4.2 4.2.0.2 May 31, 2018 4.2.0.10 August 10, 2018
  • Increase maximum object size to 8MB

[19] [17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 4.3 4.3.0.2 August 1, 2018 4.3.1.14 April 26, 2019
  • All Flash Namespaces

[20] [17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 4.4 4.4.0.4 November 19, 2018 4.4.0.15 April 26, 2019
  • Change notification Framework - connectors for Apache Kafka and JMS
  • Rack aware reads

[21] [17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 4.5 4.5.0.1 December 12, 2018 4.5.3.22 July 7, 2020

[22] [17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 4.6 4.6.0.2 August 9, 2019 4.6.0.21 September 18, 2020
  • Added bitwise BLOB operations
  • Nested Collection Data Type API support

[17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 4.7 4.7.0.2 September 30, 2019 4.7.0.26 November 25, 2020
  • ADQ Support

[23] [17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 4.8 4.8.0.1 December 12, 2019 4.8.0.31 March 29, 2021
  • Support for client/server compression
  • Support for Intel Persistent Memory for storing data

[24] [17]

Older version, yet still maintained: 4.9 4.9.0.3 April 8, 2020 4.9.0.36 October 25, 2021
  • Added support for HyperLogLog (HLL) data types
  • Improve Scans for non key value access
  • Modify Eviction/Expiration (TTL) Default behavior
  • Required "Jump" Release before 5.0 (LTS)

[25] [17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 5.0 5.0.0.3 May 14, 2020 5.0.0.38 July 19, 2021
  • Refactor cross datacenter replication (XDR)
  • Strong consistency multi site clustering

[26] [17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 5.1 5.1.0.3 July 31, 2020 5.1.0.42 September 20, 2021
  • Hashicorp
    Vault integration

[27] [17]

Old version, no longer maintained: 5.2 5.2.02 October 1, 2020 5.2.0.37 October 30, 2021
  • Redesigned predicate expressions

[28] [17]

Older version, yet still maintained: 5.3 5.3.0.2 December 10, 2020 5.3.0.27 October 30, 2021
  • Added expression filtering for XDR
  • Expanded Multi-Site Clustering

[29] [17]

Older version, yet still maintained: 5.4 5.4.0.1 January 13, 2021 5.4.0.22 October 30, 2021
  • Added bin level convergence for active-active XDR scenarios

[30] [17]

Older version, yet still maintained: 5.5 5.5.0.2 February 5, 2021 5.5.0.20 October 30, 2021

[17]

Older version, yet still maintained: 5.6 5.6.0.3 May 10, 2021 5.6.0.14 October 30, 2021
  • Aerospike Expressions
  • Set Indexes
  • Per-user quotas
  • Boolean datatype

[31] [17]

Older version, yet still maintained: 5.7 5.7.0.7 September 27, 2021 5.7.0.9 December 10, 2021
  • Improved memory footprint and garbage collection for secondary indices
  • Support for PKI authentication

[32] [17]

Current stable version: 6.0 6.0.0.0 April 27, 2022 6.0.0.0 April 27, 2022
  • Storing, Indexing and Querying JSON Documents
  • Partitioned Secondary Index Queries

[33] [17]

Legend:
Old version
Older version, still maintained
Latest version
Latest preview version
Future release

Features

Aerospike Database is modeled under the shared-nothing architecture and written in C. It operates in three layers: a data storage layer, a self-managed distribution layer, and a cluster-aware client layer.[34]

Aerospike uses hybrid memory architecture: the

rotational media.[2]

Aerospike provides single-record

immediate consistency properties of the transaction. This allows the database to remain operational even when an individual server node fails or is manually removed from the cluster.[34] Since version 4.0 (2018), Aerospike Database can be configured both as Available and Partition-tolerant (AP) or Consistent and Partition-tolerant (CP) under the CAP theorem.[37][38]

The client cluster-aware layer is used to track the cluster configuration in the database, and manages client direct communications to all the nodes in the cluster.[34] The clustering is done using heartbeats and Paxos based gossip protocol algorithm.[39]

The software employs two sub-programs that are codenamed Defragmenter and Evictor.[34][40] Defragmenter removes data blocks that have been deleted, and Evictor frees RAM space by removing references to expired records.[34][41]

References

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