Aerospike Database vs Apache Geode
Aerospike Database
aerospike.com
Apache Geode
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| Figure | Aerospike Database | Apache Geode |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · In-Memory Databases | 9.1 (#2) | 8.9 (#3) |
| Client languages | Legacy production clients are provided for Java, Python, Go, C, C#, Node.js, Rust and PHP. | Native clients are provided for Java, C++ and C# .NET, while REST supports other languages. |
| Company legal name | A U.S. government purchasing document identifies the vendor as Aerospike, Inc. | The Apache Software Foundation is the organization behind Apache Geode. |
| Documentation depth | The documentation covers quickstarts, architecture, client APIs, deployment, operations, transactions, storage, replication, tuning, troubleshooting and upgrade procedures. | The project publishes versioned user guides, Java, native C++ and native .NET API references, and wiki material. |
| Founded | 2010 | 2015 |
| Intended users | Aerospike describes Enterprise Edition as suited to mission-critical workloads and data pipelines, including machine learning and generative and agentic AI workloads. | The project describes its technology as used by enterprise customers for high-scale business applications requiring low latency and 24x7 availability. |
| Purpose | Aerospike Database is a real-time database designed for millisecond latency and large-scale transaction processing, including document access and graph traversal. | Apache Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications across widely distributed cloud architectures. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.4 out of 5 from 83 reviews | 4.4 out of 5 from 20 reviews |
| Rating on TrustRadius | 9 out of 10 from 13 reviews and ratings | 7 out of 10 from 1 review |
| Security | Enterprise Edition lists TLS transport encryption, access control lists, Vault integration, and FIPS 140-2 compliance; some security features require additional licensing. | Geode supports authentication, authorization, role-based access control, and SSL communication, but these measures are absent from the default installation. |
| 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. | Security documentation covers authentication, authorization, role-based access control, SSL communication and region-data post-processing. |
| Storage | Its storage options include in-memory, hybrid memory and flash, all-flash, and network block storage. | Geode provides in-memory storage with optional off-heap storage, compression, disk overflow, eviction, and expiration. |
| Support | Community Edition includes community support, while Enterprise Edition includes enterprise production support and hot patch availability. | The project's hosted support options are its user mailing list and issue tracker, with release support provided by project volunteers. |
| Transactions | Aerospike 8 provides strict serializability guarantees for distributed ACID transactions. | Geode supports coordinated ACID distributed transactions that clients or servers can start or suspend. |
| What it does | Aerospike Database is a distributed NoSQL platform for real-time workloads requiring predictable low latency, high availability and very large scale. | Apache Geode is a distributed in-memory data-management platform for consistent, real-time access across widely distributed cloud architectures. |
Plans
Aerospike Database
- Community EditionFree
- Enterprise EditionPriced on request
In their own words
Aerospike Database
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Apache Geode
Apache Geode is a data management platform for applications that need consistent, real-time access to data across distributed cloud architectures. It combines replication, partitioning, and distributed processing for low-latency, high-concurrency workloads. Data is stored in memory, with options for off-heap storage, compression, disk overflow, eviction, and expiration. Its write-ahead-log persistence is designed to speed parallel recovery of nodes or a whole cluster. Geode supports distributed ACID transactions and OQL queries, including joins. Clients can subscribe to server-side data events; servers can respond synchronously or asynchronously with ordered delivery. Clusters can replicate across WANs in several arrangements, including active-active, active-passive, ring, hub-spoke, and star. Listed client options include Java, C++, and C# .NET Framework, alongside a REST API for other languages. The software is free as binary and source distributions under the Apache License. Authentication, authorization, role-based access control, and SSL are available, but are not active in the default installation.