Aerospike named Most Innovative Data Platform at the 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards

As enterprises move from artificial intelligence pilots to production systems that act and adapt in real time, the data layer becomes the deciding factor. When models make decisions that affect revenue, fraud prevention, personalization, or customer experience, the underlying database cannot introduce latency, inconsistency, or operational risk. 

AI innovation is not defined by prototypes, but by what performs under production load.

That is why Aerospike has been named Most Innovative Data Platform in SiliconANGLE Media’s 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards. The recognition highlights Aerospike Database 8 and its role as the real-time data foundation for AI and mission-critical enterprise workloads.

AI in production changes the requirements

AI systems operating in production environments do not have the luxury of eventual correctness.

They must:

• Process billions of transactions daily

• Deliver consistent, low-latency responses globally

• Maintain uptime under unpredictable load

• Provide data correctness under heavy concurrency

Aerospike Database already supports production environments that process billions of daily transactions. Global leaders rely on it to manage large data workloads while meeting strict latency and uptime requirements. Aerospike Database 8 extends that foundation for a new generation of AI-driven systems.

Eliminating tradeoffs that slow innovation

Historically, legacy data platforms forced teams into compromise. You could optimize for performance, or for strict consistency, or for cost efficiency, but rarely all three.

Aerospike Database 8 is the first system to combine high-throughput, ACID-compliant transactions with strict serializability. That combination eliminates the traditional tradeoffs between speed, consistency, and cost. For AI systems that act in real time, this matters.

When a model triggers a financial transaction, coordinates autonomous actions, or updates a customer profile globally, consistency is required. When thousands of concurrent operations occur, performance must remain predictable. When workloads scale worldwide, infrastructure must remain economically sustainable. Aerospike Database 8 delivers that combination in one distributed platform.

Recognized for solving hard problems at scale

The Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards are judged by industry analysts, practitioners, and technologists who evaluate innovation, differentiation, real-world impact, and execution.

As Dave Vellante, co-founder and co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media, said:

“The 2026 CUBEd Award winners reflect where real innovation is happening. We’re proud to celebrate bold ideas, breakthrough technologies, and elite teams delivering measurable outcomes in complex enterprise environments. These winners are solving hard problems at scale and moving the industry forward in practical, durable ways.”

That is the bar: solving hard problems at scale in complex enterprise environments. That’s what real-time AI systems are.

Built so developers do not have to compromise

Aerospike CEO Subbu Iyer put it this way:

“Aerospike Database 8 meets the demands of today’s real-time systems requiring a combination of reliability, performance, and scalability. This acknowledgment by SiliconANGLE Media is a testament to the efforts of our team in developing a data platform that enables developers to build AI and mission-critical applications without having to make compromises.”

AI infrastructure should not force architectural tradeoffs. It should be reliable.  Aerospike powers millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency at a fraction of the cost of many alternatives. Enterprises rely on it for fraud detection, real-time bidding, customer 360, profile stores, recommendation engines, and other computationally intensive workloads. With Aerospike Database 8, that foundation now includes strict serializability at global scale.

This award is not just a product milestone, but a shift in what enterprises should expect from their data platforms in the AI era. Real-time AI runs on infrastructure that does not compromise.

See what Aerospike Database 8 makes possible

AI systems that act in real time require a data platform that provides both performance and correctness at global scale. Learn how Aerospike Database 8 combines high-throughput ACID transactions with strict serializability to eliminate the traditional tradeoffs between speed, consistency, and cost.

Explore Aerospike Database 8 and see how to build AI and applications without compromise.