Fast read and write performance boosts efficiency in data management
What is our primary use case?
At the time I was working in the travel industry, we needed efficient search capabilities. We needed to find inventory from our database, which was kept in two distributed systems: SQL and Aerospike.
To achieve fast reads, we stored all the inventory data in Aerospike, which significantly improved our performance in terms of read-write operations. In SQL, saving and fetching takes time, and our clients often commented on performance. However, introducing Aerospike enhanced our read and write speeds immensely.
Aerospike is a NoSQL database, allowing us to store extensive data and perform read and write operations rapidly, resolving our inventory-related performance issues.
What is most valuable?
Regarding features, a couple of things stand out for me. First is definitely the read and write capabilities, which were amazing. On the storage side, another notable feature is the distributed management.
Also, saving data into Aerospike in a NoSQL format is beneficial. It's not exactly buffer data; it's like free text, allowing us to create key-value pairs and fetch data using keys. This was another good feature.
What needs improvement?
Enhancing performance would be beneficial. While it is already fast, the industry is continuously moving towards even faster solutions, and performance issues can become apparent. They can certainly focus on performance improvements, as the current performance is like a 100 to 1, which could be optimized further.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for more than four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not encountered any major issues; I think I can say ninety-nine percent of the time, they provide good performance. I didn't find anything major, like system downtime or similar issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is also good. Generally, we deployed Aerospike on three different servers. This setup ensures proper scalability. If one server is handling requests, other servers are free to process their own tasks, ensuring seamless operation. From a scalability perspective, I can say they manage it well.
How are customer service and support?
I contacted them twice during my entire experience, and they responded well. I clearly remember an issue with searching that I faced. They not only replied via email but also assisted greatly over a call. The support system is very good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
What other advice do I have?
I will rate it eight out of ten. Definitely eight.
It depends on the users and their needs. In our system, we needed inventory-related functionalities, and Aerospike fulfilled our requirements. If your needs are similar, Aerospike will meet them. It is important to understand your needs first, then decide whether Aerospike is suitable.
Fast and Reliable
What do you like best about the product?
AS is the strongest component in every architecture I've worked with. It's fast, efficient, and provides high availability and low latency storage.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of anything I don't like about aerospike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Caching DB, In memory storage replacement
Great , fast , easy
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, highly efficient and easy to maintain
What do you dislike about the product?
One of the downsides would be the lack of a proper interface, but as the product is integrated in AWS, the CLI is a great way to connect
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Highly scalable data
Real-time Data
What do you like best about the product?
Data refreshes fast, short loading times
What do you dislike about the product?
setting up new user accounts and add-ons
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our data was not updated or in real-time. Aerospike shows our team real-time data to make smarter decisions.
Very Fast and Highly Stable
What do you like best about the product?
It is a very fast and highly stable. Aerospike team comes up with useful new features time to time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Expensive! It requires some special attention in regards to removing stale data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We require a very low latency highly stable backend for our real time engine. Aerospike suits our need perfectly.
Worked with Aerospike SC mode, great feature
What do you like best about the product?
Partitions handling, low latency, asadm tool is good
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes, due to splitbrain scenarios, manual interventions may be required
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better infrastructure, data stability, and lower latencies
NOSQL database that is highly scalable.
What do you like best about the product?
Metadata used a standard open-source NOSQL database, but we encountered problems with size and velocity, as the company database increased. Due to its simplicity of use, simple setup and a high speed reading and writing, we have chosen Aerospike to replace MongoDB. Together with the simple customer creation and a sync request support, we have been able to increase our outlining algorithms and operate twice as quickly, allowing us to service more customers with even smaller hardware resources in a lower amount. The move to Aerospike has expanded our capabilities and led to the growth of our business. Any tech company searching for a solid database, which remains scalable, super-fast and commercially accessible, should be advised by Aerospike.
What do you dislike about the product?
Our approach and architecture had no issues with installing or incorporating Aerospike. It was made simpler by your documentation, and we had no problems scaling it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our biggest challenge was to help our rising database without compromising pace or buying substantially more infrastructure on our network. The consequences were fantastic, as we doubled our performance while retaining a sleek infra cloud.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Please read the documents and chat to other people - make sure that your implementation is the correct path forward and that you are on a sweet journey.
Aerospike is awesome!
What do you like best about the product?
Amazing performance, easy to work with and Profesional support
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a bit complex and advanced technology, one should know exactly what he does,
also, it's a bit hard to calculate the storage and memory needed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Realtime analytics we do for ads, instead of storing it in the process memory, we use AS for it's real-time performance and the ability to reduce in memory usage for our servers and use AS lookups instead. the performance for it is impressive
Robust DB for your demanding infra
What do you like best about the product?
Sub-millisecond response time and high availability
What do you dislike about the product?
Few features are meant for Enterprise customers only, making it viable for a chunk of the userbase, which also makes the product not reachable to many.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to solve high availability of data for querying, we are getting benefited from the sub-millisecond response times.
Pretty fast for write patterns
What do you like best about the product?
Aerospike has solid architecture to provide robust distributed database service.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd like to see more parameters which can be changed dynamically.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data analysis.
Aerospike is very fast on writing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get a trial to proof your data model and use-cases fit Aerospike architecture and features effectively. It's very helpful to get advices from Aerospike team.
