Aerospike Database vs Google Cloud Bigtable
Aerospike Database
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Google Cloud Bigtable
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| Figure | Aerospike Database | Google Cloud Bigtable |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $0.03/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 10 |
| Spec score · Key-Value Databases | 9.1 (#1) | 8.0 (#8) |
| Spec score · NoSQL Databases | 9.1 (#3) | 7.9 (#16) |
| Spec score · Database Software | 8.5 (#29) | 8.1 (#44) |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Integrations | Aerospike Connect includes connectors for Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, JMS, Pulsar, Trino, and Event Stream Processing, with additional licensing noted for these connectors. | The product page lists integrations with Apache Spark, Hadoop, GKE, Dataflow, Dataproc, Vertex AI Vector Search, BigQuery, and LangChain. |
| Security | Enterprise Edition lists TLS transport encryption, access control lists, Vault integration, and FIPS 140-2 compliance; some security features require additional licensing. | Security controls include customer-managed encryption keys with Cloud External Key Manager support, IAM, VPC Service Controls, Access Transparency, Access Approval, audit logging, and table-, column-, or row-level access control. |
Plans
Aerospike Database
- Community EditionFree
- Enterprise EditionPriced on request
Google Cloud Bigtable
- Enterprise$0.65 a month
- Enterprise Plus$0.85 a month
- Data BoostFree
- HDD storage$0.03 a month
- Standard backup storage$0.03 a month
- Hot backup storage$0.12 a month
- SSD storage$0.17 a month
- In-memory tier$0.20 a month
- Enterprise compute capacity$0.65 a month
- Enterprise Plus compute capacity$0.85 a month
In their own words
Aerospike Database
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Google Cloud Bigtable
Google Cloud Bigtable is a managed, low-latency NoSQL database for machine learning, operational analytics, and user-facing applications. It stores structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in key-value and wide-column formats. SQL querying includes an API with more than 200 functions and support for aggregations, windowing, geospatial and JSON processing, and vector search. Compute scales horizontally, and instances can span up to eight regions with automatic replication between clusters. Google says multi-region instances offer 99.999% availability and protection against a regional failure. Integrations listed include Apache Spark, Hadoop, GKE, Dataflow, Dataproc, Vertex AI Vector Search, BigQuery, and LangChain. Bigtable provides Apache HBase and Cassandra APIs, plus migration tools for HBase, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and Aerospike. Security controls include IAM, customer-managed encryption keys, audit logging, and table-, column-, or row-level access control. Deployment is cloud-based. Google describes its capacity-based low-latency compute as more favorable for larger workloads than small applications. A 10-day trial is available subject to eligibility requirements.