Aerospike Database Management Tools

Database Management Tools

Database management tools offering a rich collection of command-line utilities for cluster management, data management, performance monitoring, and data import/export.

Cluster Management Tools

Aerospike Admin (asadm)

Aerospike Admin is an interactive Python utility used for getting summary info for the current health of a cluster, administering the access control list (ACL), managing user defined functions (UDFs), managing secondary indexes, changing dynamic configurations, and tuning commands across the cluster.

Aerospike Info (asinfo)

asinfo is a command-line utility that provides an interface to Aerospike's cluster command and control functions. This includes the ability to change server configuration parameters while the Aerospike is running.

Aerospike Shared-Memory (asmt)

Aerospike Shared-Memory Tool (asmt) allows faster cold starts of server nodes in Aerospike Database Enterprise Edition clusters. Faster restarts are possible because the asmt tool backs up to a file on persistent storage and restores the primary index for the server node to the shared memory, the node finds the index in shared memory and does not have to reconstruct it thus speeding up the reboots of the server nodes.

Data Management Tools

Aerospike Query Language (aql)

AQL is a data browser for examination of the DB and a tool for lightweight administrative tasks such as looking at specific records, managing User Defined Functions (UDFs), and managing users.

Aerospike Validation (asvalidation)

The asvalidation tool checks the validity of collection data type (CDT) bins in a namespace. It produces a report of problem bins it discovers. It also has an option to fix some of the discovered problems.

Performance Assessment and Monitoring Tools

Log Latency Tool

The Aerospike Log Latency tool analyzes Aerospike log files and returns the latency measurements. It returns latency analysis for a given time period in a tabular, easy to read form.

Aerospike Benchmark

The Aerospike Benchmark tool measures the performance of an Aerospike cluster. It can mimic real-world workloads with configurable record structures, various access patterns, and UDF calls.

Data Import/Export Tools

Aerospike Loader (asloader)

The Aerospike Loader migrates data from any other database to Aerospike. A user can dump data from different databases in .DSV format and use this tool to parse and load the data into an Aerospike cluster.

Aerospike Backup (asback)

The asbackup utility is used to backup namespaces, sets, or partitions from an Aerospike cluster to local storage. By default, backups are not parallelized, but his can be changed with the --parallel command line option. This utility can now backup to Amazon S3.

Aerospike Restore (asrestore)

The asrestore utility restores backups created with asbackup. If the namespace on the cluster already contains existing records, a configurable write policy determines, which records take precedence - records in the namespace or records from the backup.

Manage your Aerospike environment

The most frequently used Aerospike tools are conveniently contained in the Aerospike Tools Package.