Aerospike Database vs eDB
Aerospike Database
aerospike.com
eDB
embeddedos.orgSide by side
| Figure | Aerospike Database | eDB |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 0 |
| Spec score · Multimodel Databases | 9.1 (#3) | 7.2 (#21) |
| Integrations | Aerospike Connect includes connectors for Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, JMS, Pulsar, Trino, and Event Stream Processing, with additional licensing noted for these connectors. | The page says eDB depends on the EoS Kernel, eBoot, and EIPC, and powers eAI, eOffice, eHealth365, eFlow, and other EoS applications. |
| 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 product page presents eDB for EoS applications that need persistent storage, including sensor logs, AI model metadata, configurations, device state, and health records. |
| Purpose | Aerospike Database is a real-time database designed for millisecond latency and large-scale transaction processing, including document access and graph traversal. | eDB is an embedded multi-model database for EoS devices with SQL, JSON document, and key-value stores. |
| Storage | Its storage options include in-memory, hybrid memory and flash, all-flash, and network block storage. | Supported storage includes NOR flash, NAND flash, eMMC, SD card, and volatile RAM. |
| Support | Community Edition includes community support, while Enterprise Edition includes enterprise production support and hot patch availability. | The Foundation lists technical support for build failures, board bring-up, toolchain setup, and documentation questions; other enquiries are answered in arrival order. |
| Transactions | Aerospike 8 provides strict serializability guarantees for distributed ACID transactions. | eDB provides ACID transactions with write-ahead logging and says they are safe across power failures. |
Plans
Aerospike Database
- Community EditionFree
- Enterprise EditionPriced on request
In their own words
Aerospike Database
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