Aerospike Database

Spec sheet

What it does

Aerospike Database is a distributed NoSQL platform for real-time workloads requiring predictable low latency, high availability and very large scale.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Purpose

Aerospike Database is a real-time database designed for millisecond latency and large-scale transaction processing, including document access and graph traversal.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Intended users

Aerospike describes Enterprise Edition as suited to mission-critical workloads and data pipelines, including machine learning and generative and agentic AI workloads.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Free plan

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Integrations

Aerospike Connect includes connectors for Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, JMS, Pulsar, Trino, and Event Stream Processing, with additional licensing noted for these connectors.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Security

Enterprise Edition lists TLS transport encryption, access control lists, Vault integration, and FIPS 140-2 compliance; some security features require additional licensing.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Compliance

Aerospike reports ISO 27001 certification, SOC 2 Type II attestation, periodic penetration testing and GDPR-related controls.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Support

Community Edition includes community support, while Enterprise Edition includes enterprise production support and hot patch availability.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Founded

2010Read 23 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

API documentation

The Node.js API documentation includes connection tutorials, callback, Promise and async/await examples, semantic versioning guidance and generated API references.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Client languages

Legacy production clients are provided for Java, Python, Go, C, C#, Node.js, Rust and PHP.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Client libraries

The downloads page lists client libraries for C, Java, Go, C#, Python, Node.js, Ruby, Rust, and PHP.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Cloud pricing model

Aerospike Cloud pricing combines infrastructure, network transfer and a management component, with estimates tailored to region and workload and no transaction charge.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Company legal name

A U.S. government purchasing document identifies the vendor as Aerospike, Inc.Read 19 Oct 2026 · gsaadvantage.gov

Company profile

LinkedIn lists Aerospike as a privately held software-development company headquartered in Mountain View, California, founded in 2009 with 201–500 employees.Read 19 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Connectors

Official connectors cover Kafka, Pulsar, JMS, event-stream processing, Elasticsearch, Spark and Trino.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Consistency

Aerospike offers high-availability consistency and strong consistency with distributed ACID transactions.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Data models

The database supports key-value, document and graph data structures through one core engine.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Developer SDKs

A newer Developer SDK is available for Java and Python with fluent APIs, Aerospike Expression Language queries and structured error handling.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Documentation depth

The documentation covers quickstarts, architecture, client APIs, deployment, operations, transactions, storage, replication, tuning, troubleshooting and upgrade procedures.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Enterprise evaluation

Enterprise and Federal Editions include a single-node evaluation key, and Aerospike offers a free multi-node evaluation signup.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Installation options

Aerospike supports 64-bit Linux on AMD64 and ARM64, Docker, Kubernetes through the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator, and cloud virtual machines; macOS and Windows are supported for development through Docker.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Latest release

Database 8.2.0 was released September 29, 2026 with Ubuntu 26.04 support, server-side expression improvements, structured errors and a 64-level nesting limit for lists and maps.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Limit: AWS Marketplace pricing and upgrades

An AWS Marketplace reviewer reports annual spending of about $36,000–$40,000 for roughly half a terabyte and requests better development-to-production upgrade automation.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com

Limit: G2 interface and querying

Reviewers mention a lack of a polished interface, record-size constraints and difficulty limiting broad query results.Read 19 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Limit: Gartner operations

A critical Gartner review says installation is easy but dependable operation requires difficult monitoring.Read 19 Oct 2026 · gartner.com

Limit: Software Advice pricing

A Software Advice reviewer calls Aerospike expensive and says some client libraries lack feature compatibility, especially Ruby, while training is basic.Read 19 Oct 2026 · softwareadvice.com

Limit: TrustRadius usability

TrustRadius reviewers cite limited developer experience, weak community engagement, no developer GUI, complicated replication and limited query language.Read 19 Oct 2026 · tr-web.stage.trustradius.com

Linux support

Aerospike Server Enterprise and Standard Edition packages are available for various Linux distributions.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Open-source scope

Community Edition is AGPLv3 open source, while Enterprise and Standard Editions are closed-source commercial builds; client libraries use Apache 2.0.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Performance claim

Aerospike states that its database delivers predictable sub-millisecond responses and can reduce infrastructure requirements by up to 80 percent.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Praise: G2 performance

Reviewers repeatedly praise Aerospike for speed, low latency, high availability, efficient scaling and fast data refreshes.Read 19 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Praise: Gartner reliability

Gartner reviewers describe strong hybrid-memory performance, reliable replication, little tuning and no major incidents over years of production use.Read 19 Oct 2026 · gartner.com

Praise: TrustRadius performance

TrustRadius reviewers highlight low latency, stability, configurability, rapid scaling, resilience and efficient hardware use.Read 19 Oct 2026 · tr-web.stage.trustradius.com

Pricing basis

Aerospike says Enterprise pricing is primarily based on unique production data volume and active production clusters, with no charge for operations, servers, or cores.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Rating on G2

4.4 out of 5 from 83 reviewsRead 19 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on Gartner Peer Insights

4.8 out of 5 from 76 reviewsRead 19 Oct 2026 · gartner.com

Rating on TrustRadius

9 out of 10 from 13 reviews and ratingsRead 19 Oct 2026 · tr-web.stage.trustradius.com

Release limitation

Database 8.2.0 does not provide build artifacts for Debian 12 or Ubuntu 22.04.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Replication

Cross-Datacenter Replication provides asynchronous active-active replication between clusters, while synchronous active-active supports strongly consistent global transactions.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Security controls

Aerospike states that it encrypts data in transit with TLS 1.2 or newer and at rest with AES-128 or equivalent, and uses RBAC, MFA, SIEM monitoring and encrypted backups.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Self-healing

The platform combines failover, resilient storage and automatic sharding to target 99.999 percent availability.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Storage

Its storage options include in-memory, hybrid memory and flash, all-flash, and network block storage.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Storage engines

Deployments can use in-memory, hybrid memory/flash, all-flash or network block storage configurations.Read 19 Oct 2026 · aerospike.com

Transactions

Aerospike 8 provides strict serializability guarantees for distributed ACID transactions.Read 30 Sep 2026 · aerospike.com

Plans and prices

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