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Aerospike
Company blog · aerospike.com/blogdatasystems
Aerospike is the company blog at aerospike.com, writing about data and systems. Since 2012, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Aerospike. NoSQL Database, In-Memory or Flash Optimized and Web Scale”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention Aerospike as a low-latency distributed key-value database and link its docs, benchmarks, case studies and blog posts when discussing SSD storage performance, consistency and alternatives to Redis.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Aerospike is the real-time database for AI, trusted in the world's most demanding environments. Consistent, available, and cost-efficient at any scale.
Most-linked posts?
- Aerospike. NoSQL Database, In-Memory or Flash Optimized and Web Scale6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-09-18
- The essentials of worthwhile database benchmarks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-26
- Aerospike goes Open Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-25
What Hacker News says?
Interesting project. Very similar to KeyDB [1] which also developed a multi-threaded scale-up approach to Redis. It's since been acquired by Snapchat. There's also Aerospike [2] which has developed a lot around low-latency performance. 1. https://docs.keydb.dev/ 2. https://aerospike.com/
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on “Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached”Submitted Aerospike goes Open Source as a story · 123 points
HN discussionyou're right, the performance of the local storage on i3 instances is a lot better than normal EBS but still nothing close to what you would get from just buying an Intel P4500 or similar though. http://www.aerospike.com/benchmarks/amazon-ec2-i3-performanc...
Comment linking /benchmarks/amazon-ec2-i3-performance-results/
on “Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing”Submitted Achieving the perfect golden record with graph data as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThe rotated A in the Aerospike logo reminds me of a system that's fallen over, and now you can't unsee it: http://www.aerospike.com/
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on “Call me maybe: Aerospike”Submitted Simplify Scaling: Use 1 Aerospike Server, Not 12 Redis Shards as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis isn't new. I wrote this blog about beacons back in 2015 for the NoSQL vendor Aerospike; there aren't just audio (high frequency) beacons. There are also RF and other spectrum beacons: https://www.aerospike.com/blog/silverpush-unifies-people-dev...
Comment linking /blog/silverpush-unifies-people-devices-data/
on “Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers”Submitted Aerospike's 2025 AI and Data Platform Predictions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAerospike - distributed key value store has a little bit different of a use case than RethinkDB - distributed JSON document databases. Basically the only valid use that I have seen for Aerospike, and that is the one that they are advertising is a distributed key value profile store for Ad-tech or marketing companies ( http://www.aerospike.com/overview/ ). Keep in mind that to actually use all of Aerospike's features…
Comment linking /overview/
on “RethinkDB 2.0 is amazing”Submitted Aerospike hits 1M writes/sec on GCE with 6x fewer servers than Cassandra as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat do you guys think of Aerospike ( http://www.aerospike.com/ )? I heard of a few cases that used it successfully. Any issues with it?
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on “RethinkDB 2.0 is amazing”Submitted Making sense of vectors: Why they're the key to smarter AI searches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso PHP7 addresses a lot of the performance issues, getting it up into the node.js range and ahead of Python 3 / Ruby in the microbenchmark wars at least: https://www.aerospike.com/blog/php7_php5/ https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Comment linking /blog/php7_php5/
on ““Modern” C++ Lamentations”Submitted The essentials of worthwhile database benchmarks as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Redis doesn't provide a data structure for that. Both Redis and Aerospike provide more than enough mechanisms for one to roll their own composite hierarchy. Both provide server side scripting via Lua as well so the database can maintain consistency and prevent chatty access to the store. KV database modeling is just as rich as its relational counterpart, but if one isn't using a KV store for a compelling reason, u…
Comment linking /docs/guide/udf.html
on “Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone”Submitted Aerospike Shows Fivefold Cost Advantage Over Cassandra as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot directly related to TRIM, but AeroSpike has a nice test suite for SSDs, probing for IOPS and latency: https://github.com/aerospike/act They share their test results for both physical and cloud-based storage, I figured this would be of interest: http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/plan/ssd/ssd_certif...
Comment linking /docs/operations/plan/ssd/ssd_certification.html
on “When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid”Submitted AppLovin NoSQL Evaluation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPutting a few important metrics in the logs every 10s is something that the Aerospike datastore also does ( https://aerospike.com/docs/database/observe/latency ). This is useful because when you contact support, they run a script to generate a table of historical latencies from the log without depending on you having set up Prometheus, CloudWatch, etc.
Comment linking /docs/database/observe/latency
on “Log by time, not by count”Submitted Aerospike. NoSQL Database, In-Memory or Flash Optimized and Web Scale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCool idea, I believe aeorspike uses ssd's for key value store like this. Check out http://www.aerospike.com/performance/architecture/ .
Comment linking /performance/architecture/
on “fatcache - Memcache on SSD”Submitted Aerospike free distributed lua-functions kv/document/large-types in-memory/ssd as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://aerospike.com/docs/vector/learn/caching
Comment linking /docs/vector/learn/caching
on “Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical”Submitted Entrepreneurs break all the Rules – Aerospike goes Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe do use it in production here at Adform. More about it here: https://www.aerospike.com/adform-divorces-cassandra-scales-4...
Comment linking /adform-divorces-cassandra-scales-4x-with-2x-reduced-servers/
on “Jepsen: Aerospike 3.99.0.3”Submitted Aerospike Open Sources DB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs a Cassandra Committer, I would really appreciate you updating your ycsb integration so we can corroborate your benchmarks, as I currently doubt their authenticity/honesty. It looks very much like you compared non-durable performance in Aerospike to durable performance in Cassandra. It also appears from your documentation that you do not support any kind of safe active-active multi-dc mode, even in your paid-for o…
Comment linking /docs/architecture/xdr.html
on “Aerospike goes Open Source”Submitted Aerospike is 10x faster than Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's a benchmark from 2013 from Thumbtack Technology, comparing Aerospike, Cassandra, MongoDB and Couchbase... http://www.odbms.org/2013/01/ultra-high-performance-nosql-be... http://www.odbms.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/NoSQLBenchma... In this benchmark, Couchbase gets some impressive results, but it does appear that Aerospike is the overall winner when it comes to speed and reliability. Anyway, the code is fre…
Comment linking /blog/aerospike-doubles-in-memory-nosql-database-performance/
on “Aerospike goes Open Source”Submitted Overcoming the traditional memory vs. storage compromise as a story · 1 points
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