About the Aerospike C Client

You can use the Aerospike C client to build C/C++ applications that store and retrieve data from an Aerospike cluster. The C client is a smart client that periodically pings nodes for cluster status and manages interactions with the cluster. The following functionality is supported:

• Database commands
  • Key/Value
  • Map/List collections
  • Batch read
  • Scan
  • Secondary index query
  • User defined Lua functions
  • Expression filters
• Both synchronous and asynchronous command models
• Asynchronous model supports the following event frameworks.
  • libev
  • libevent
  • libuv
• Thread safe API
• Shared memory cluster tend state for multi-process applications
• TLS secure sockets

See Files for Aerospike header files.
See Data Structures for Aerospike types.
See Developer Guide for installation instructions and example code.