Introduction

The Aerospike C client allows you to build C/C++ applications to store and retrieve data from the 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 Types for aerospike types.
See Developer Guide for installation instructions and example code.