Aerospike Database vs TiKV
Aerospike Database
aerospike.com
TiKV
tikv.orgSide by side
| Figure | Aerospike Database | TiKV |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | 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 · Key-Value Databases | 9.1 (#1) | 7.5 (#18) |
| Spec score · Transaction Data Store Software | 9.1 (#1) | 7.5 (#25) |
| Founded | 2010 | 2016 |
| Integrations | Aerospike Connect includes connectors for Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, JMS, Pulsar, Trino, and Event Stream Processing, with additional licensing noted for these connectors. | The maker lists TiDB, Zetta, Tidis, Titan, and JuiceFS among systems built with or using TiKV. |
| Replication | Cross-Datacenter Replication provides asynchronous active-active replication between clusters, while synchronous active-active supports strongly consistent global transactions. | TiKV uses Raft groups to replicate data across nodes for fault tolerance and supports horizontal scaling and rebalancing. |
| Security | Enterprise Edition lists TLS transport encryption, access control lists, Vault integration, and FIPS 140-2 compliance; some security features require additional licensing. | TiKV documentation describes TLS for network connections and configurable encryption at rest, including AES methods. |
| What it does | Aerospike Database is a distributed NoSQL platform for real-time workloads requiring predictable low latency, high availability and very large scale. | TiKV is a distributed transactional key-value database designed to serve as a unified distributed storage layer. |
Plans
Aerospike Database
- Community EditionFree
- Enterprise EditionPriced on request
In their own words
Aerospike Database
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TiKV
TiKV is a distributed transactional key-value database designed as a unified storage layer across nodes. It provides a raw key-value API and a transactional key-value API with ACID semantics, but those APIs cannot both be used on the same keyspace. The project says it can support petabyte-scale deployments spanning trillions of rows. Raft groups replicate data across nodes for fault tolerance, while horizontal scaling and rebalancing support changes in cluster capacity. RawKV also includes time-to-live expiration and compare-and-swap operations. The documentation lists Java, Go, Rust, Python, and C++ clients; Java and Go are marked stable, while the others are marked unstable. TiKV is self-hosted and Apache 2.0 licensed, with Linux, macOS, Windows, and API listed as platforms. Its documentation describes TLS for network connections and configurable encryption at rest, including AES methods. TiKV was originally created by PingCAP and is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation graduate project. The community page recommends Slack for general communication and provides a dedicated mailing list for security vulnerability reports.