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July 2, 2014

Aerospike goes Open Source

Filed under: Aerospike,Database — Patrick Durusau @ 6:57 pm

Aerospike goes Open Source

From the post:

We are excited to announce that the Aerospike database is now open source.

Aerospike’s mission is to disrupt the entire field of databases by offering an addictive proposition: a database literally ten times faster than existing NoSQL solutions, and one hundred times faster than existing SQL solutions. By offering as open source the battle-tested operational database that powers the largest and highest scale companies on the planet, Aerospike will change how applications are architected, and solutions are created!

The code for Aerospike clients and the Aerospike server is published on github. Clients are available under the Apache 2 license so you can use and modify with no restrictions. The server is available under AGPL V3 to protect the long term interests of the community – you are free to use it with no restrictions but if you change the server code, then those code changes must be contributed back.

Aerospike Community Edition has no limits on the number of servers, tps or terabytes of data, and is curated by Aerospike. Use is unlimited and the code is open. We cannot wait to see what you will do with it!

You will have to read the details to decide if Aerospike is appropriate for your requirements.

Among other things, I would focus on statements like:

This layer [Distribution Layer] scales linearly and implements many of the ACID guarantees.

That’s like reading a poorly written standards document. 😉 What does “many of the ACID guarantees” mean exactly?

From the ACID article at Wikipedia I read:

In computer science, ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) is a set of properties that guarantee that database transactions are processed reliably.

Jim Gray defined these properties of a reliable transaction system in the late 1970s and developed technologies to achieve them automatically.

I don’t think four (4) requirements count as “many” but my first question would be:

Which of the “many” ACID guarantees does Aerospike not implement? How hard that this be? It has to be one of the four. Yes?

Second question: So, more than three decades after Jim Gray demonstrated how to satisfy all four ACID guarantees, Aerospike doesn’t? Yes?

I’m not denying there may be valid reasons to ignore one or more of the ACID guarantees. But let’s be clear about which ones and the trade-offs that justify it.

I first saw this in a tweet by Charles Ditzel.

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