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Aerospike Digital Summit 2021: Thank You for Attending
Another Aerospike Summit is in the books. Last week, we held Aerospike Digital Summit 2021, Reimagine Real-time - our fourth annual Aerospike Summit....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 28
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
5G brings hope of brighter days ahead but requires data infrastructure that keeps up
Several market forces have combined to drive sector wide digital transformation of communications service providers globally, aka the telecom industry. ...
Enterprise Edition Database 5
Changing customer expectations and industry disruptors are driving significant investments in digital transformation initiatives across multiple industries. To compete in today's real-time digital economy, companies must invest in the right hyperscale data...
Aerospike Database 5.6: Developer Cornucopia
Aerospike is pleased to announce Aerospike 5.6, which is now available to customers. This is a developer-focused release offering major new functionality, including several features requested by the Aerospike user community....
Let AI/ML workloads take off with Aerospike and Spark 3.0
Apache Spark 3.0 and Aerospike can help you realize your AI/ML strategies at scale, reliably, and cost effectively....
Deploy Aerospike and Trino based analytics platform using Docker
Based on the feedback that we received from our users, we are pleased to announce that you can now deploy the Presto connector along with Trino quickly using Docker....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 27
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Covid 19 Caused Massive Transformation in Telecom
While many things slowed down for businesses during the pandemic, digital transformation was not one of them....
Top-of-Mind Retail CIO Concerns
Since the pandemic began, first person research has revealed that retail executives have focused more on integrating data from different sources and in developing real-time data analysis to address critical business objectives....
Thank you to our Summit 2021 Gold Sponsors
Aerospike is pleased to share more about the Gold sponsors we have on board this year: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, and Western Digital. Each sponsor will be discussing topics critical to helping you Reimagine Real-time....
Retail & Ecommerce
Retail & Ecommerce The changes wrought by the pandemic on ecommerce have not only caused online sales to explode, but forced retailers to immediately accelerate efforts to battle aggressive online fraud, provide better customer experiences and ramp up mobile...
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 26
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 25
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
High speed, low costs and more benefits of modern data platforms
This webinar will review the multiple business benefits for analyzing and combating fraud and the different approaches and best practices to analyzing data for fraud prevention....
Aerospike Kubernetes Operator
The Aerospike Kubernetes Operator was introduced to provide cloud portability and automates operational best practices for deploying and managing Aerospike Enterprise....
Introducing the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator
Aerospike announces the release of the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator, giving you the ability to deploy multi-node clusters, recover automatically from node failures, scale up or down automatically as load changes, ensure nodes are evenly split across racks or...
Why attend the Aerospike Digital Summit?
Why should I attend the Aerospike Digital Summit 2021? We have selected a premium platform to deliver an outstanding digital experience, with opportunities to hear from Customers and Partners about their experience with Aerospike. You will also have the opportunity...
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 24
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
How Modern Data Strategies Can Underpin the Digital Identity and Authentication Practices Critical to Digital Transformation
Zero in on how modern data infrastructures can fuel the critical authentication and identity practices required for a contactless world....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 23
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases, and events, written by the Aerospike team....
How to Accelerate IoT and Real-Time Services with 5G and MEC
Join the webinar to hear the latest regarding changes and challenges around 5G, AI/MEC/Cloud and IoT, creating data platforms that drive new revenue streams with new ecosystems and value chains, leveraging 5G to provide new services and completely personalized...
Smart City and Infrastructure
Succeeding in the new Industry 4.0 world that optimizes IoT and edge devices means rethinking how you connect data throughout your entire IT infrastructure. With Aerospike, you’ll deliver IoT-driven analysis and insights at lightning speed to every key stakeholder...
Connected Vehicle
Succeeding in the new Industry 4.0 world that optimizes IoT and edge devices means rethinking how you connect data throughout your entire IT infrastructure. With Aerospike, you’ll deliver IoT-driven analysis and insights at lightning speed to every key stakeholder...
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
Succeeding in the new Industry 4.0 world that optimizes IoT and edge devices means rethinking how you connect data throughout your entire IT infrastructure. With Aerospike, you’ll deliver IoT-driven analysis and insights at lightning speed to every key stakeholder...
Emerging Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact™ of the Aerospike NoSQL Data Platform
Join this webinar to learn about the Aerospike data platform and key Total Economic Impact (TEI) study results....
Using Analytics and Fraud Management To Increase Revenues and Differentiate Yourself From the Competition
This webinar will review the multiple business benefits for analyzing and combating fraud and the different approaches and best practices to analyzing data for fraud prevention....
The Smart Future of IIoT
Industrial and enterprise organizations are accelerating planned digital transformation efforts during the market disruption caused by the global health crisis....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 22
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases, and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Aerospike Database 5.5: XDR Convergence
Aerospike is pleased to announce Aerospike 5.5, which is now available to customers....
Three Data-intensive Digital Transformation Trends for 2021
As the digital transformation race downshifts and slams the accelerator, here are three trends with data management strategies this year....
Announcing Aerospike Digital Summit 2021, Reimagine Real-time
I’m pleased to announce that registration is now open for Aerospike Digital Summit 2021, which will take place on May 4th-6th. This year’s theme is Reimagine Real-time and the event sessions we have lined up will focus on new ways to help you scale your real-time...
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 21
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
The Aerospike Developer Hub – a One-Stop Shop for Developers to Build Fast, Scalable, and Secure Applications
Aerospike’s Developer Hub provides the resources for developers to engage, innovate, and build applications....
Internet of Things (IoT)
Succeeding in the new Industry 4.0 world that optimizes IoT and edge devices means rethinking how you connect data throughout your entire IT infrastructure. With Aerospike, you’ll deliver IoT-driven analysis and insights at lightning speed to every key stakeholder...
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 20
Happy new year and welcome to the second year of the Aerospike Standup! This is a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Accelerate Time-to-Insight With Aerospike and Presto
The Presto connector enables business data analysts to use ANSI SQL, which they are very comfortable with, to query data stored in Aerospike via Presto....
Accelerate Time-to-Insight with Aerospike and Presto
We are very excited to announce that Aerospike Connect for Presto is out of beta and now generally available. The Presto connector enables business and data analysts to use ANSI SQL, which they are very comfortable with, to query data stored in Aerospike via Presto....
Aerospike Database 5.4: Usability Improvements & Human-Readable XDR Filter Expressions
Aerospike is pleased to announce Aerospike 5.4, which will be available to customers in January of 2021....
Can you think of an application that can’t benefit from speed?
In this post we’ll review the challenges of traditional data architectures, and introduce a number of examples of how you can implement several caching strategies and use cases with Aerospike....
Aerospike CacheDB
Speeding up digital apps with the performance of an in-memory cache with the persistence of a database....
High Performance Applications with Aerospike CacheDB
Get the performance of a cache with the persistence of a complete NoSQL database....
Aerospike Database and Confluent Platform
Aerospike is pleased to announce that Aerospike Connect for Kafka has been certified for the Confluent Platform....
Digital Transformation and Cloud Workloads Study
To better understand current trends in data management, Unisphere Research, the research arm of Database Trends and Applications, conducted a survey, in partnership with Aerospike Corporation....
The Smart Future of Industrial IoT
Join this webinar to learn how to build a connected data infrastructure that will help your IoT-driven industrial processes flourish....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 19
Questions From the Community Multiupdate by query Received command latency, not registered Aerospike in kubernetes How to reset “admin” account password if forgotten? Paging Support Couldn’t find what cause client_write_error New Articles Add Horsepower to AI/M...
Add Horsepower to your AI/ML Pipeline
Every AI/ML project starts with the singular goal of creating the most accurate model within the shortest amount of time. However, that hope is quickly dashed as soon as you get around to building your training pipeline at scale to work with vast amounts of data....
Aerospike Database Recognized as a Trend-Setting Product by DBTA
2020 has been a year of innovation and recognition for Aerospike. The latest honor is the company’s inclusion on Database Trends and Applications magazine’s eighth annual list of top products in data management and analysis....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 18
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Forrester TEI Study Shows Aerospike Delivers Significant Projected ROI
More and more companies across a variety of industries are deploying mission critical applications that process large scale data volumes in real time. Understanding the economic impact of data platforms such as Aerospike that support these applications is critical....
re:Inventing the full potential of digital advertising
In 1980 if someone passed a billboard, you didn’t know if the advertisement worked or not. Jump forward 40 years, and now digital advertising can be very precise, and that is great news for most businesses....
Welcome Experian to Aerospike Cloud Managed Service
Today's digital business environment requires vast amounts of data to be processed in real time to deliver an intelligent and positive experience for customers. This means real-time transactions against databases of 100's of terabytes; and it all has to be...
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 17
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Tie Breaker Functionality for Aerospike Multi-Site Clustering
Aerospike’s Strong Consistency (SC) and rack awareness features allow construction of multi-site database clusters in which each site has a full copy of the data and all sites are perfectly synchronised....
Aerospike Database 5.3: XDR Filtering with Expressions & Expanded Multi-Site Clustering
Aerospike is pleased to announce Aerospike 5.3, which will be available to customers in Q4 of 2020....
Multi Record Transactions for Aerospike
Aerospike is a high performance key-value database. It’s aimed at institutions and use-cases that need high throughput ( 100k tps+), with low latency (95% completion in <1ms), while managing large amounts of data (Tb+) with 100% uptime, scalability and low cost.
Aerospike on EKS (AWS K8s)
Much like Java, Kubernetes offers the promise of ‘write once, run anywhere’. The wry riposte (a little unfairly) in the early days of Java, was ‘write once, debug everywhere’....
Record Aggregation in Aerospike For Performance and Economy
A strong differentiator for Aerospike vs other key value databases is its DRAM economy. Every object has a 64 byte DRAM footprint no matter what the size of the actual object is. You can manage a billion objects using only 128Gb of DRAM, allowing for 2x replication....
Using Technology to Profitability Serve the Unbanked
Globally, some 1.7 billion people are unbanked. Companies can fill this void with banking products and services that can offer significant new revenue opportunities, while at the same time provide a critical social service that can improve the lives of millions....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 16
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Ansible for Aerospike
Although Aerospike is straightforward to configure and install, the relatively small number of steps you have to go through does begin to add up in aggregate....
Utilizing AI & Data for Agile Banking & Fraud Management
Join this panel of industry experts as they explore how AI, data architecture, and analytics have enabled banks to safeguard financial services and provide better fraud management....
How Financial Services Institutions Can Take Data Analytics to the Next Level
For banks, brokerages, lenders, and payment providers, the use of data is a strategic differentiator. How it is found or created, stored, secured, accessed, and understood can be the difference between success and failure....
Data Platforms in Financial Services – The NoSQL Edge Report
This article shares some snippets from a recent report prepared by MEDICI in partnership with Aerospike, which focuses on sharing knowledge and promoting interest in NoSQL databases and exploring collaboration opportunities and business benefits derived from NoSQL...
Automated Aerospike All Flash Setup
Aerospike is a key value database maximising SSD/Flash technology in order to offer best in class throughput and latency at petabyte scale....
AI Innovation in Digital Banking (November 2020)
The world has suddenly found itself in uncertain times. Now more than ever businesses rely on real-time decisioning systems, to respond to emerging fraud patterns....
Using Aerospike Connect For Spark
This article looks at how Aerospike Spark Connect works in practice by offering a comprehensive and easily reproduced end to end example using aerospike-ansible....
Introducing Aerospike Connect for Presto
Aerospike is a high throughput/low latency distributed NoSQL database. Records may be retrieved based on a primary key, secondary index query, or full scan using the most basic API functionality. It’s possible to use filters to perform a selective scan on the...
Why Digital Banking Needs a Modern Data Platform
The banking industry’s digital transformation initiatives are primarily divided into digitization drives undertaken by incumbents, and new digital-only banking models such as challenger banks and neobanks....
Taking Advantage of Probabilistic Data Structures
HyperLogLog is an algorithm for estimating the number of distinct elements in a multiset. The HyperLogLog data type was introduced in Aerospike 4.9 as a native data type, encompassing the algorithm and underlying data structures....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 15
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
How NoSQL Helps in Financial Crime Detection and Fraud Management
This article explores how NoSQL helps in financial crime detection and fraud management....
Feed Hungry ML Systems More Data, Faster & Efficiently
AI/ML systems have insatiable appetites for data. Machine learning models run better with more data, and the more iterations and the more training, tuning and validation you can do, the better your results. The challenges lie in data preparation (which is painful)...
Modern Instant Payment Settlements are Increasingly Being Powered by NoSQL
The evolution of payment systems over the years has culminated in increased demand for instant transaction processing. Consumers are no longer content with slow interbank clearance processes that used to take from a few days for local payment processing to a week...
Architecting for Global Real-time Fraud prevention with a Performant Data Platform
Creating the world’s largest digital identity platform requires decisioning based on analysis of data from a number of global sources in real-time. Any digital business, regardless of industry, depends on speed and efficiency to drive operational decisions....
Feed Hungry AI Systems More Data, Faster & Efficiently
ML models run better with more data; and the more iterations and the more training, tuning and validation you can do, the better your results. So what’s the big deal?...
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 14
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
What's Going on in Brokerages in times of Covid
The volatility of the stock market caused by the pandemic's economic fallout has led to an incredible surge of trading by both experienced and new investors looking for financial opportunities. This year, these investors drove a second-quarter retail equity trading...
Aerospike Database 5.2: XDR Enhancements & Predicate Filters
Aerospike is pleased to announce the general availability of Aerospike 5.2....
Next-Gen NoSQL Databases for FinServ: Exploring Use Cases
Technology is changing the customer experience in the financial services industry. Today, customers expect to get everything done in just four clicks – this continuously increasing pressure to meet customer expectations is forcing financial institutions to innovate...
And Now for a Security Reminder
This shouldn’t be news to you, but people are trying to hack your phone, your laptop, your application server and yes, even your database server....
A Worthy Sequel: An Overview of Next-Gen NoSQL Databases
Let’s start with the basics. A database is an organized and systematic collection of data that can be stored and accessed electronically. A database management system (DBMS) is an integrated software package designed to allow users to access, manipulate, analyze,...
A Deep Dive into Financial Services and Next Gen Data Platforms
The world of Financial Services had embraced the concept of the Digital Imperative before the Pandemic changed our ways of lives; but as the world moves online and the amount of data generated grows exponentially, there is now an added urgency....
How a Better Fraud Data Layer can Serve as a Competitive Advantage
Get an insiders point of view on fraud technology for financial services data professionals in this presentation....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 13
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Hello Aerospike Monitoring Stack, Goodbye AMC
Every production system needs monitoring, especially a database. In the ten years in which the Aerospike database has evolved through multiple versions and features, the monitoring tools landscape has also changed, influenced by a massive shift toward cloud...
Integrating Aerospike Into Your Pulsar Based Streaming Systems
Real-time connectivity of databases and systems is critical in enterprises to support business critical use cases such as fraud detection, 360-degree customer profile, IoT, recommendation engines, etc....
Accelerate your data pipelines with the Aerospike Database and Aerospike Connect
At Aerospike, we constantly utilize customer feedback to drive product improvements and the roadmap. Here are a few concerns that we hear from our customers that we have worked to solve....
Scaling for Extreme Growth? The Data Layer is Ground Zero!
To make good decisions you need good data. Currently 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day, and the amount of data will continue to increase exponentially as the digital economy matures....
Kafka Summit 2020: What We Learned and Why We Were There.
As the world adapts to the virtual, online mode of streaming data, a mighty crowd gathered to learn about the underpinnings of how to manage said streams; the 2020 Kafka User Summit, held online August 24-25. So why did 30,000 plus folks register to learn the...
Scaling for Extreme Growth? The Data Layer is Ground Zero!
To make good decisions you need good data. But it’s not enough to have data — it needs to be data that you can get and process in real-time that is most valuable for today’s digital apps and services....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 12
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
What Could You Learn from 1 Trillion Retail Sites Visits and 100 Million SKUs?
In this blog post we look at the findings in Adobe’s Digital Economy Index, released at the end of June 2020. After we examine their observations of the larger trends, we highlight the key factors that drive success in today’s ecommerce winners....
Winners and Losers in Customer Experience 2020: Mid-Year Check-In Edition
If you’re in the business of making and selling something, improving the customer experience is an essential focus, now more than ever, with the world’s essential pivot toward online experiences. While every enterprise will have their own key focus areas, needs and...
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 11
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Join Us at Kafka Summit!
Modern data architectures don’t work in isolation. They are made up of multiple technologies each serving a different purpose in the data ecosystem. Apache Kafka® fits naturally as a messaging layer for real-time streaming data pipelines to reliably get data...
Your Generosity Makes a Difference
With the assistance of our magnificent sponsors Intel and HPE, participants of the Aerospike Virtual Summit raised over $15,000 for these two terrific organizations, which are providing critical food and medical services globally to those affected by COVID-19....
The Future of Data: Global, Distributed, Available
Oil or Sunlight? The Economist introduced the idea of data being like oil back in 2017 calling it “the fuel of the future;” and resurfaced the debate earlier this year when they challenged their earlier posit and got very philosophical about how our lives are...
Enabling Global Data Architecture: What's New in XDR 5.0
With the growing interconnectedness of the world, the need for global applications is on the rise. Users are constantly on the move and they may try to access applications from anywhere in the country or in the world....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 10
Happy August! We’re happy to have everyone on this edition of the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers. As always you will find here blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the...
Aerospike Database 5.1: Security Enhancements including HashiCorp Vault Integration
Aerospike is pleased to announce Aerospike 5.1, with general availability in late July, 2020. The central theme of this release is enhanced security in the Enterprise Edition, which has an Identity and Access Management (IAM) system based on users and roles....
Now more than ever, invest in Digital
Digital transformation may have once been something discussed only in tech circles, but the pandemic has shown that the world has changed and everyone -- from school children to doctors -- need digital in order to live their lives....
Enterprise Database Strategies for 2020
In this webinar you will learn from experts how database technology is adapting to and embracing an enterprise IT environment built to support advanced analytics and AI....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 9
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
The Telecom Industry – Thought Leaders and Landscape Changers
One emerging trend in the Covid altered landscape of mid 2020 is that the telecom industry is not just unscathed - it shows us an inspiring snapshot of companies grabbing the reins of technology leadership....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 8
Welcome to the Aerospike Standup, we hope you had a good long weekend!...
How to Scale Up During Covid: Online Gaming, eCommerce and Recruiting
We recently convened an architectural round table panel on BrightTALK to share successes from leaders in Online Gaming, eCommerce and Recruiting. In this post, we’ll explain why being able to scale is important; explain how each of these companies approached it;...
Payments and Fraud Prevention in the Age of Covid
As we all know; the world is markedly different today than it was in early March of this year; and one of the things that are seeing first hand is the quickening pace in the usage of real-time payments, where money is digitally deposited into another account instantly....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 7
Welcome to the Aerospike standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Business Agility in Asia during the COVID crisis
So much has changed in the last few weeks that it seems like we are living in a different world from what we saw before all this craziness started. Regardless of where one is, things have changed for the worse for so many industries, organizations and individuals...
What to Look for in a Globally Distributed System
The growth of global on-line business transactions is pressuring data architects to re-think their legacy relational, mainframe and NoSQL data platforms. Customers expect their online business experience to never fail, to deliver immediate results and ensure data...
Viettel’s Journey to an International-Awarded Online Charging System With Aerospike
Interested in learning how some of India's top Enterprise architects have built ground up scalable solutions that are agile enough to handle the COVID crisis? Learn about how a top fantasy sports platform, ecommerce company, and hiring platform are navigating this...
Resiliency in Aerospike Multi-Site Clusters
As part of the recently announced Aerospike Database 5, multi-site clusters are now a supported configuration. Aerospike database has supported a cluster architecture for almost a decade. This post describes what is different in multi-site clusters. Specifically it...
AI Innovation in Digital Banking
It's no secret that in today’s data tsunami, every C-Suite executive (and those that support them) has to have a point of view on how to not just protect, but utilize their customers' data....
Architecting India: Scale during the COVID-19 epidemic
Interested in learning how some of India's top Enterprise architects have built ground up scalable solutions that are agile enough to handle the COVID crisis? Learn about how a top fantasy sports platform, ecommerce company, and hiring platform are navigating this...
Payments in the time of Covid
Real-time payments, where money is digitally deposited into another account instantly, has seen renewed interest as lockdowns continue in countries across the world....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 6
Welcome to the Aerospike standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Aerospike stands with its employees against racism and inequality
In America, racism and violence against minorities are causing our black citizens to suffer brutality on a regular basis. As a naturalized American citizen, I have benefited from the promise of freedom and equality in the United States. To see human rights violated...
How to Spot a Bad Benchmark
Benchmarks can be helpful in making informed decisions, but they become a problem when they are manipulated or lack transparency....
Resolving Uncertain Transactions in Aerospike
For applications that desire strong consistency, it is important to not only have all replicas in the cluster be always in sync, but also to have application’s knowledge of a transaction’s outcome consistent with the actual outcome in the database....
Twelve Do’s of Consistency in Aerospike
For applications that demand absolute correctness of data, Aerospike offers the Strong Consistency (SC) mode that guarantees no stale or dirty data is read and no committed data is lost....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 5
You are probably joining us following the invitation email from our CPO & Co-Founder, Srini Srinivasan, and we are very happy to have you onboard!...
Aerospike’s Sherry Prescott-Willis named to “Women of Influence, Class of 2020”
Aerospike’s Sherry Prescott-Willis was recently named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s “Women of Influence, Class of 2020.” We are thrilled to see her receive this well-deserved distinction....
AI Innovation in Digital Banking
The world has suddenly found itself in uncertain times. Now more than ever businesses rely on real-time decisioning systems, to respond to emerging fraud patterns....
Aerospike Virtual Summit ‘20: Innovating in a Challenging Environment
Last week, we held our third annual Aerospike Summit. In order to ensure the health and safety of our attendees in light of the coronavirus pandemic, we decided to make Summit a virtual event....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 4
What a week! Our 3 day virtual summit just ended, and with 35 talks and over 1000 attendees - we can say it was a great success!...
XDR for Global Data Hubs
With the release of Aerospike Database 5, XDR meets the requirements of a global data hub, allowing customers to route data captured at the edge to where it needed – in Aerospike clusters or any other repository....
Aerospike Multi-site Clustering: Globally Distributed, Strongly Consistent, Highly Resilient Transactions at Scale
With strong, immediate data consistency and rack awareness capabilities, Aerospike’s multi-site clustering capability enables firms to operate a single database cluster across multiple locations without risking data loss or restricting data availability....
Aerospike Multi-site Clustering
Aerospike Multi-site Clustering supports always-on, strongly consistent, globally distributed transactions at scale....
Active-Active Capabilities in Aerospike Database 5
In the new digital environment, national and global brands must field applications that are always-on and perform in near real-time. This has led to the adoption of distributed technology for applications as well as the databases serving those applications....
Aerospike Database 5: Multi-site Clustering and Cross Datacenter Replication
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of Aerospike 5.0. This is a major release that greatly expands the ability to support globally distributed applications....
Aerospike Virtual Summit ’20 is Here
We’re hours away from kicking-off Aerospike Virtual Summit ’20 – and I couldn’t be more excited. Even with the pivot to a virtual event, we have more than tripled registrations from 2019....
Aerospike Cloud Managed Service
Aerospike Cloud Managed Service enables enterprises to focus on delivering new digital value to customers rather than managing databases and infrastructure....
Aerospike Cloud Foundations
The Aerospike Cloud Foundations is based on Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) standards which enterprises are rapidly adopting to help simplify the deployment, orchestration, management, alerting and monitoring of cloud applications across any cloud environment....
Aerospike Cloud Managed Service
The promise of the cloud is access to resources that enable agility in the face of a changing world. I can get the resources I need when I need them without massive upfront commitments....
Accelerated Real-Time Computing at Petabyte Scale
Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.8 is engineered to make advanced use of Intel® Optane™ persistent memory for real-time computing....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 3
Welcome to the Aerospike standup vol. 3, our newsletter that’s written by developers for developers! We’re deep in preparations for our upcoming virtual summit, where our team will be giving training alongside great talks from our customers and partners....
Premier Sponsors HPE and Intel to Keynote Aerospike Virtual Summit ’20
For this post, we’ll provide some more detail into two keynotes from our Premier Sponsors HPE and Intel. Both companies continue to be important strategic technology partners with Aerospike and we are thrilled to have them join us to help our customers best...
Aerospike 4.9: New Functionality for Developers
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of Aerospike Server 4.9. This release is developer-centric, offering new functionality, enhancements to existing features, and some changes in defaults better aligned with the most common use cases....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 2
Welcome to The Aerospike Standup vol. 2. In this newsletter written by developers for developers, we bring together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Q&A: Evaluating NoSQL Solutions for a Real-time System of Record
Business stakeholders are demanding real-time data faster to keep up with customers, competitors, and partners. Enterprises often cite support for real-time as a top data management and analytics requirement, especially as users increasingly adopt modern business...
Aerospike Virtual Summit ’20 – The Customers Speak
One of the most exciting aspects of every Aerospike Summit is the opportunity to hear our customers from the world’s leading brands describe the innovative ways they use Aerospike’s next-generation, real-time NoSQL data platform – and ask them questions....
The Aerospike Standup Vol. 1
Welcome to the Aerospike standup, a newsletter written by developers for developers, that brings together blog posts, questions from the community, documentation, releases and events, written by the Aerospike team....
Aerospike’s Commitment to Business Continuity
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to disrupt our work, families and our communities, I want to update you on Aerospike’s business continuity practices and what we are doing to support employees, customers and our greater community around the world....
Introducing Aerospike Cloud
We are announcing Aerospike Cloud, a family of software products and services that will enable our customers to compose their own database service, through components for deployment, orchestration, management, alerting and monitoring. Aerospike Cloud products are...
Aerospike Virtual Summit ’20 – Training Agenda Set
For this post, we’ll provide an overview of our technical training and workshops that you can take advantage of on the first day of the Aerospike Virtual Summit ’20, Tuesday, May 12....
Aerospike Summit ’20 Goes Virtual
Aerospike Virtual Summit ’20 will be an online, virtual event this year in lieu of the live event while remaining on May 12-14....
Using Aerospike on Google Cloud Platform: Two Use Cases
I’ll describe how Aerospike and Google Cloud Platform helped just two of our many customers overcome their most important business and technology challenges....
Announcing Aerospike Summit ‘20, “Next Generation Now”
Third Annual Aerospike Summit to Include Full-Day Technical Training and Presentations from Global IT Thought Leaders...
Near Real-Time Campaign Reporting Part 3 — Campaign Service and Campaign UI
This is the third in a series of articles describing a simplified example of near real-time Ad Campaign reporting on a fixed set of campaign dimensions usually displayed for analysis in a user interface. The solution presented in this series relies on Kafka,...
Microservices with Aerospike
In this post, we will show how Aerospike features enable Microservices architecture. Specifically, we will see how separation, coordination, and consistency among services is supported....
Driving E-commerce Recommendations in Real-time – What's Needed
Better e-commerce isn’t exclusive to a faster web or mobile site: it’s about delivering contextual, personalized, relevant experiences in real-time. The challenge is collecting transactional information and combining it with historic and interactional data....
How the Right Data Platform Can Lower Risk
Banks, brokerages, global instant payment systems - they all rely on data in an instant to verify, authenticate, approve, and ultimately transact. But the challenge is always the changing landscape of tactics that fraudsters will employ. To adjust, financial...
Evaluating Hbase and NoSQL Solutions for Real-time System of Record
With real-time data-centric applications becoming more prominent, performance and scalability requirements are likewise becoming more and more demanding as companies are looking to execute their digital transformations. For NoSQL and non-relational databases, some...
Near real-time Campaign Reporting Part 2 — Aggregation/Reduction
This is the second in a series of articles describing a simplified example of near real-time Ad Campaign reporting on a fixed set of campaign dimensions usually displayed for analysis in a user interface....
CCPA and Advertising Compliance
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) became law on Jan. 1, 2020, and ad tech companies are among those businesses that must inform consumers of any personal data being collected and then give those consumers the option to have it deleted....
Developers: Understanding Aerospike Transactions
How to implement transactional semantics in your Aerospike application. Certain situations have to be handled differently from traditional databases that you may be familiar with because of the single record scope of Aerospike transactions and certain cluster...
Durability & Performance with Intel® Optane™ DC PMEM
Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory is an innovative memory technology that delivers a unique combination of affordable large capacity and support for data persistence. This technology can help businesses get faster insights from their data-intensive applications...
Near real-time Campaign Reporting Part 1 — Event Collection
This article is Part 1 of a series of articles describing a very simplified solution for near real-time campaign reporting, that is campaign reporting on a fixed set of dimensions and usually displayed for analysis in a user interface....
Driving E-commerce Recommendations in Real-time – What’s Needed
Significant disruption across industries and the rising influence of the empowered consumer continue to exert pressure on businesses to deliver differentiated and consistent experiences across the entirety of the consumer journey....
Zero downtime upgrades in Aerospike made (even) simpler
Aerospike is a distributed key value database, designed to support high levels of throughput, with minimal latency, at scale. Aerospike is optimised for use with flash based storage enabling it to achieve world class performance with best in class density and cost....
Aerospike 4.8: Enhanced Persistent Memory Support and Compression
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of our 4.8 release....
History, Background and FAQs for DevOps Tools and Models
While DevOps can make an organization more competitive, simply implementing it without doing the homework may result in less-than-desirable results. In order to make the most of what it has to offer, it's important to understand all the DevOps facets....
How Real-Time, Data-Rich Applications Became Mainstream
Today we announced that Aerospike took additional funding. This milestone is another important step forward in Aerospike’s long-term evolution — and certainly not a destination in itself....
Good Benchmarking Guidelines
As a vendor with customers and community who trust us and believe in us, we feel it is our duty to test the quality and performance of the software we deliver. As such, we test both speed and scale simultaneously, because we believe speed without scale is a dead...
A Look Inside Aerospike’s Journey and the Rise of the New Stack in Enterprise Data Platforms
This week, we announced that Verizon Media is joining other forward-looking enterprises in consolidating and streamlining its data infrastructure with the Aerospike platform....
AI, Machine Learning and Beyond: Changing the Future of Finance
How are emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, blockchain, and cloud computing changing the way financial institutions do business?...
Announcing Aerospike Connect for JMS
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of Aerospike Connect for JMS (Java Message Service), the newest member of the growing Aerospike Connect product portfolio....
Aerospike Connect for JMS – Integrating Aerospike with Other Enterprise Systems
Both modern applications and legacy systems within enterprises require real-time connectivity to the underlying databases to support sub-millisecond decisioning, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Companies with legacy data infrastructures need...
Customer Update: Aerospike 4.7 for Intel® Ethernet 800 Series with ADQ
Join this Special Customer Update featuring Srini Srinivasan, Founder and Chief Product Officer at Aerospike, and Anil Vasudevan, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel. You’ll hear details on Intel Ethernet 800 Series with ADQ directly from one of Intel’s most...
What Is A NoSQL Database?
NoSQL databases can store and manage data both quickly and flexibly. Google, Amazon, Yahoo and Facebook have all had a hand in developing these databases as they sought to store their content or processive data for their websites....
Driving E-commerce Recommendations in Real-time – What's Needed
Better e-commerce isn’t exclusive to a faster web or mobile site: it’s about delivering contextual, personalized, relevant experiences in real-time. The challenge is collecting transactional information and combining it with historic and interactional data....
Announcing Aerospike 4.7 – the First Commercial Database to Support the Intel® Ethernet 800 Series with ADQ
Aerospike’s industry leading performance increased more than 75% when leveraging ADQ!...
Brokerage and Banking Company Replaces a Cache on a Relational Database
American brokerage and banking company replaces a RAM-based cache on a relational database with Aerospike to successfully achieve Speed at Scale....
Real-time Big Data at Hyperscale for AI, ML and IoT – What's Needed?
Processing big data in real-time for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things poses significant infrastructure challenges. Whether it is for autonomous vehicles, connected devices, or scientific research, legacy NoSQL solutions often...
A Digital Wallet Primer
When data is collected it can be sent across long routes to data centers or clouds. But with edge computing, that data is collected and analyzed closer to the "edge" of the network. That means that organizations can analyze data in near real-time, which is often...
Ad Tech: Competitive Advantage through a Better Database
Whether you are a DSP, an SSP, or a DMP - you are looking to process massive amounts of data in just milliseconds. Doing so can optimize effective cost per click (or action), optimize open auctions, or improve your customers’ Ad targeting, user profiling,...
5 Signs You’ve Outgrown Redis
If you’ve had Redis for a while and are starting to run into issues with growing workloads, you’re not alone. Many of our customers have migrated to Aerospike from Redis, and that number is growing....
Edge Computing: What, Why and How to best Do
When data is collected it can be sent across long routes to data centers or clouds. But with edge computing, that data is collected and analyzed closer to the "edge" of the network. That means that organizations can analyze data in near real-time, which is often...
Aerospike 4.6 – Enhancing Enterprise-grade Security and Critical Developer Features
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of Aerospike 4.6 in August of 2019. This release significantly enhances existing enterprise-grade security and delivers critical developer functionality for hyperscale data-intensive applications....
Real-time Data Races to the Cloud
Fresh out of Gartner’s research is a market prediction that in just three years (by 2022), 75 percent of all databases will be in cloud – and many deployments are what the firm calls “cloud-first” or “cloud-only.” When we speak about “the” cloud, we a...
Aerospike Database Editions: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
Aerospike Community Edition is a powerful, freely available database, but did you ever wonder what else was available with Enterprise Edition? What are the scale limitations? What are the additional features?...
Aerospike 4.5.2: Relaxed Consistency for Increased Availability
Aerospike 4.5.2 which was released on April 1st, 2019, is unique in that it implements a way to relax consistency in certain situations to allow increased availability....
Company Fact Sheet
Aerospike Consulting Services makes it easy for enterprises of all sizes to plan and deploy their Aerospike database....
Customer 360 is not a Luxury, but a Necessity for Survival
For decades, businesses have sought a comprehensive picture of customer activity and behavior, but have been thwarted by data that remains siloed or unanalyzed. Finally, processes for getting a reliable and complete view of what customers want (and how they want to b...
How Our Trailblazing Customers Innovate at Scale
One of my north star quotes that guides our mission here is from Jacques Bughin and Nicolas van Zeebroeck. In MIT Sloan Review, they declare: “Companies that adopt bold strategies in the face of industry digitization improve their odds of coming out winners.” Las...
Delivering Service Through the Lifecycle
“Can I be honest with you?” often prefaces a seemingly important message to a customer at some point in their lifecycle. The person asking for this moment of truth is just trying to make room for an authentic interaction to impart some key piece of knowledge or i...
Accelerate Your Aerospike Deployment
Aerospike Consulting Services makes it easy for enterprises of all sizes to plan and deploy their Aerospike database....
Quickly Get Up to Speed With Aerospike
Aerospike Academy makes it easy for customers to understand and utilize the complete features of the Aerospike Database and ecosystem....
Accelerate Your Aerospike Deployment and Adoption
Aerospike Technical Account Managers (TAMs) makes it easy for enterprises of all sizes to plan, deploy, and manage the Aerospike database....
Simplify & Accelerate Your Aerospike Cloud Deployment
Aerospike Managed Cloud Services makes it easy for enterprises of all sizes to plan, deploy and manage cloud-based implementations of the Aerospike database....
Aerospike Summit ‘19 is Almost Here
The excitement is building at Aerospike as we get closer to Summit ’19. There are only a few seats available for the May 1-2 conference – be sure not to miss out....
Aerospike REST Client
Earlier, in March, Aerospike launched its REST Client in conjunction with the Aerospike Connect product portfolio to help developing applications and to make it easier to integrate the Aerospike Database into enterprise infrastructure systems....
Driving Innovation in the Digital Payments Space: Why the Database Matters
Many businesses are finding it a challenge to adapt quickly enough to keep up with the exploding digital payments marketplace, running the real risk of losing customers if they don’t find solutions – fast....
Using Aerospike as a Real-time System of Record
In this age of digital transformation, organizations are now required to make lightning-fast decisions powering applications like fraud detection, digital payments, ad bidding and recommendation engines. However, this cannot be accomplished with legacy data...
Affordable Real-Time Computing at Petabyte Scale
Aerospike Enterprise Edition* 4.5, together with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, provides a breakthrough in scalability, high availability, and affordability for real-time computing....
Aerospike Performance on Intel Optane Persistent Memory
Aerospike recently became the first open database to support Intel Optane persistent memory. Intel persistent memory provides a massive improvement in scale, with easy to configure Aerospike nodes surpassing 100TB each in size....
Announcing Aerospike Connect: Add-on Integrations for Spark and Kafka
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of Aerospike Connect for Kafka, Aerospike Connect for Spark and the Aerospike REST Client. The Aerospike Connect product and the REST client eliminate the need for custom coding to integrate the Aerospike database wit...
Powering Advanced Analytics Using Aerospike and Spark
In the world of Digital, AI, IoT and the Algorithmic economy – data and real-time insights have gained paramount importance within enterprises going through a digital transformation. Real-time, actionable insights drive better decisions which can greatly improve...
Integrating Aerospike with Other Enterprise Systems
Real-time connectivity of databases and systems is critical in enterprises adopting Digital Transformation to support super-fast decisioning to drive applications like fraud detection, digital payments, recommendation engines....
Unifying the Data Tech Stack: Across the Edge, Analytics and Operational Tiers
Today’s data technology stack can be a hodgepodge. You may have one set of technologies for operational databases; another for a caching layer; still more tech for analytics and AI; and additional platforms for processing data on edge and mobile devices. Each of...
Driving Innovation in the Digital Payments Space: Why the Database Matters
Digital payments systems rely upon merchant adoption, creating a positive network effect stimulating user adoption. Establishing a viable business model that is low cost and drives adoption almost inherently requires continual innovation in a competitive payments...
Trends in Online Gaming and Gambling
Both online gaming and online gambling are rapidly changing as new technologies and providers vie to attract customers and develop brand loyalty. The proliferation of handheld devices and smartphones means that more consumers can easily access games and gambling site...
Hungry AI
In a world where business transactions are done less and less with cash and increasingly as digital payments, reducing fraud is paramount. Brian Bulkowski, Aerospike’s Founder and Member of the Advisor Team, shares his thoughts on using machine learning to transfor...
Aerospike’s Banner Year of Innovation, Adoption and Growth
2018 was Aerospike’s best year ever. One of those slingshot years, where you look back and say, that was one of the catalyst moments where our years of hard work took us beyond startup to market scale. Our success is the culmination of a multiyear strategy that p...
Digital Transformation: Think Big. Start Small.
Succeeding with digital transformation is a challenge for companies of all sizes. John Dillon, Aerospike’s CEO, has shared his own point of view on the topics in this article, posted January 29 on Medium. The problem is that onboarding new technology is a challenge...
3 Reasons Why Retailers Are Stocking Up on Machine Learning
The aura of anticipation and uncertainty that permeates discussions around AI and machine learning tends to overshadow the near - term and practical use cases of the technology. One space already showing the promise of machine learning is retail....
Hungry AI/ML for Fraud, Risk & Payments: Why the Database Matters
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning is being implemented to make better decisions to avert fraud and lower risk for digital payments. These systems thrive on data: the more you can feed them, the better they perform. We call this “Hungry AI.” Furthermore,...
BI in the Blink of an Eye
In his article posted January 9 on Medium, John Dillon, Aerospike’s CEO, shared his thoughts on real-time decisioning and what it means for companies today....
Customer Briefing: Aerospike 4.5 for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
Intel’s Optane DC persistent memory with 3D Xpoint technology will fundamentally change the database market. Machine Learning-based applications such as fraud prevention, digital payments, real-time bidding and recommendation engines ingest hundreds of terabytes or...
Aerospike 4.5: Persistent Memory and Compression
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of our 4.5 release. Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.5 is the first commercially available open database supporting new Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory , based on Intel® 3D XPoint™, a new class of storage tech...
GreyBeards Podcast Talk High Performance Databases
In this podcast episode, the GreyBeards On Storage podcast hosts discuss high performance databases and the storage needed to get there, with Brian Bulkowski, Founder and CTO of Aerospike....
Powering Ad Tech Transformation
Leading Ad Tech companies use the Aerospike non-relational NoSQL database to improve customer engagement, campaign effectiveness and top-line results...
Online Gaming – Growth, Opportunity & Challenges Ahead
According to gaming industry research firm Newzoo, online gaming global revenues are projected to exceed $100 billion by 2017. An industry that was once comprised exclusively of hardcore gamers is swelling as casual players join the ranks, spawned by the...
Don't Buy the Demo
In his article posted November 8 on Medium, John Dillon, Aerospike’s CEO, shares his thoughts on the importance of an iterative approach to data systems. He explains why buyers tend to be wooed by sexy demos of new software systems, but often wind up struggling...
Aerospike 4.4: Change Notification and Operational Improvements
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of our 4.4 release. The 4.4 release contains a number of operational improvements, and the major feature of Change Notification. Existing deployments should carefully read the operational improvements (listed below) –...
Retail/eCommerce Data Architectures Driven by the Amazon Effect
Amazon has been dominating with its scale of operations into every industry sector that it has been getting into. We call that “Amazonian effect” – these Amazonian effects have been brutal not just on brick-and-mortar retailers but also on online businesses as well....
Order of Magnitude
In his article posted October 30 on Medium, Brian Bulkowski, Aerospike’s Founder and CTO, shares his thoughts on what it means when engineers speak about ‘an order of magnitude’ and why business leaders should pay attention when they hear that phrase....
Ecommerce, ML and Recommendation Engines: Why The Database Matters Webinar
Online shoppers expect the right product at the right price at the right time. While this is a simple concept, the applications supporting these goals are extremely complex. An online retailer’s inventory, pricing and marketing management system must deliver...
Trends in Ecommerce: Machine Learning Fueling Growth?
While Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette says that his company’s ecommerce efforts require the same creativity and inspiration as given to Macy’s flagship store in New York City, they also require a much bigger commitment to something that could make or break the retailer’s...
Fraud Prevention: Q&A with Forrester’s Andras Cser
In this post, Andras Cser, Vice President and Principal Analyst serving Security & Risk Professionals for Forrester Research, answers 5 questions regarding Fraud and Risk Management. He is a leading expert on identity management, access management, user account...
Digital Transformation and Effective Use of Data Should be a Boardroom Discussion. Here’s Why.
In an article posted October 2 on Medium, John Dillon, Aerospike’s CEO, shares his thoughts on Digital Transformation and the effective use of data today. Here are a few highlights from John’s article....
Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances: Helping Digital Data Architectures?
However, when one considers the Amazon application requirements, one needs to think about location of your data, your costs, and the restart experience and associated infrastructure. Overall, Amazon is increasing the awareness in this space, echoing where...
Payments & Identity Fraud – The Numbers are Staggering
The explosion of customer data and the growing sophistication and frequency of fraud are just some of the challenges facing the financial services industry – not to mention government regulations and new mobile financial players that are disrupting the traditional...
ENABLING DIGITAL PAYMENTS TRANSFORMATION
Fraud Detection, Identity Resolution, Settlement and Clearing all Benefit from Real-time Decisioning....
Aerospike 4.3: All Flash & Uniform Balance
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of our 4.3 release. The 4.3 release contains two key features: All Flash, and uniform balance. Aerospike is focused on ease of deployment, and easy deployment means efficiency and lower hardware costs, as well as easy...
Accelerating the Pace of Digital Transformation
The pace of digital transformation in the financial services industry is rapidly accelerating. Catalysts for change include technology innovations related to big data, distributed computing, the cloud, mobile applications and the proliferation of social media. Econom...
Aerospike in the IBM Cloud
Aerospike is an unusual database. It’s fast, it takes less CPU and DRAM, and it pushes storage harder. That’s how it achieves multi-million transaction per second per server rates, with sub-millisecond access times. This speed makes Aerospike the database of choice f...
Aerospike Ecosystems – Enabling Frictionless deployment of Aerospike Database in Enterprises
Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0 have brought enormous amounts of pressure upon traditional enterprises looking to avoid being disrupted by their digitally native competitors. These traditional enterprises (also known as Digital Immigrants) have a path towards...
Aerospike 4.2: Storage Efficiency and Speed Improvements
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of our 4.2 release. Close on the heels of our 4.0 release providing consistency, and our 4.1 release with a number of enterprise security and performance features, we have released our 4.2 release with further enhance...
MAXIMIZE THE VALUE OF YOUR OPERATIONAL DATA
It might sound too good to be true: a database system that processes large volumes of operational data in real-time while delivering exceptional runtime performance, high availability, and cost efficiency while still keeping your data safe. What if early adopters in ...
Why is Aerospike’s Hybrid Memory Architecture Different?
More and more enterprise applications are driven by fast decisions closer to data and hence are architected as edge or fog systems. For edge-based systems that require high throughput and extremely low latency over large volumes of data, traditional architectures cal...
Docker + Aerospike From Development to Deployment with Docker & Aerospike
Aerospike’s integrated Docker solution provides a simple way to deploy containers to support scalable database persistence. With automated cluster formation and self-healing as the cluster topology changes, combined with Aerospike Smart Clients™ eliminates the need...
Cacheless Architectures for Digital Transformation: Why They Matter, and What You Need to Know
Organizations are embracing digital transformation to create a competitive advantage by either building entirely new systems of engagement (SOEs) or by attempting to retool existing SOEs. SOEs are real-time, operationally focused, edge-based systems and services, suc...
Aerospike 4.1
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of our 4.1 release. After the major 4.0 release introducing consistency, this release has a backlog of interesting enhancements, beyond a number of minor bug fixes. As always, we continue to push forward reliability a...
Powering Business Moments
The cornerstone of Digital Economy is a business moment, a critical fraction of a second when data transforms into insight turning an opportunity into the business value. Watch the video to learn how digital enterprises transform their database architecture to...
Aerospike 4.0, Strong Consistency, and Jepsen
“In hundreds of tests of SC mode through network partitions, 3.99.1.5 and higher versions have not shown any sign of nonlinearizable histories, lost increments to counters, or lost updates to sets.” – Kyle Kingsbury, Aerospike 3.99.0.3, 12-27-2017 We believe Jepsen h...
Aerospike accelerates: Strong Consistency with High Performance in Aerospike 4.0
We are pleased to announce general availability of Aerospike 4.0, which includes strong consistency. Aerospike 4.0’s Strong Consistency technology is a revolutionary leap forward for high fidelity data uses. In cases where an application’s reliability requirements mi...
Adtech and Martech Convergence – How Data is Transforming the Customer Journey
Technology is constantly changing and the pace seems to be increasing – transformational change seems to occur more rapidly than ever. Not too long ago, advertisers and marketers invested thousands and thousands of dollars for what was essentially a shot in the dar...
GDPR and Its Impact on Data Strategy
Digitization comes at a cost. Each of us now leaves a trail of digital exhaust, an infinite stream of phone records, texts, browser histories, preferences, buying patterns, location, and other information that will live on forever. Oceans of information. Every time...
5 Signs You Should Consider Aerospike Over Amazon DynamoDB
Here’s the Sign(s) Companies choose databases with both core business objectives and technical objectives in mind. Often they select a database that seems to be the best choice at first glance, as well as the path of least resistance, and then are subsequently surp...
Meltdown / Spectre and Aerospike
Executive Summary The Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs require OS and cloud hypervisor patches to provide data security. These patches, while necessary, come at a performance cost. In general, we have seen few impacts across the Aerospike customer base due to our rema...
How Microservices is Disrupting FinTech
In this webinar recording, Randy Heffner, VP, and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, and Stephen Murphy, CEO at Genesis Global, explain how microservices improve the speed of execution, key emerging practices for doing microservices well, and how...
How Aerospike is Redefining Fast by using Intel Architecture – Intel® Chip Chat Podcast
Intel® Chip Chat is a recurring podcast series of informal, one-on-one interviews, and last week, its host, Allyson Klein, interviewed Aerospike Head of Product and Solutions Marketing, Satish Iyer about how Aerospike is “Redefining Fast” within the database spa...
Aerospike Has Removed the Large Data Type (LDT) Feature
In 2013, Aerospike introduced a new feature known as Large Data Types (LDTs) to enable Aerospike to handle data that exceeded our row size limit. On November 14, 2016, in this blog post, we announced that the feature was deprecated and that we would be removing it...
The 7 Year Itch: How Aerospike decided to transform the database status-quo (Part 2 of 2)
As we mentioned in the first part [0] of this blog, Aerospike 4.0 read/write operations on a single record can be made strictly linearizable [3] (preserving sequential read/write accesses to a record in multiple concurrent execution threads across the entire syste...
Aerospike takes a major step to transform the Enterprise SoE
Data Resides at the Core of Digital Transformation Enterprises are transforming to stay competitive and relevant in the digital age. The vitality of customer experience and deeper engagement necessitates the Enterprises to embrace digital technology to drive bett...
The 7 Year Itch: How Aerospike decided to transform the database status-quo (Part 1 of 2)
Since 2010, the Aerospike Real-Time Operational DBMS [1] has been in widespread use for handling real mission-critical applications in the areas of real-time bidding for AdTech, fraud detection for Online Payments, continuous risk management for Stock Brokerage Firms...
Fast & Frictionless – The Decision Engine for Seamless Digital Business
In this session, Michele Goetz, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and Matthias Baumhof, VP Worldwide Engineering at ThreatMetrix®, will discuss how faster, accurate, and real-time customer trust decisions remove friction and deliver superior business outcomes....
Aerospike and Swiggy – from Data to Delivery
Food Delivery and Data Over the past few years, food and grocery delivery has been one of most disrupted space. The space garnered more investments and more players, making it one of the most competitive sectors. Though the value proposition is simple – Convenie...
IIoT: The Light at the End of the “Dark Data” Tunnel?
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), also known as the Industrial Internet, brings together brilliant machines, advanced analytics, and people at work. It’s a network of a multitude of devices connected by communications technologies resulting in systems that ...
Creating Value with Fast Decisioning in the World of Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2)
PSD2, or Payment Services Directive 2 as it is lovingly known, triggers a broad range of emotions from financial institutions (FIs) – ranging from glee, hope, annoyance, and anger to straight fear. The FIs that are happy (there are many) tend to be payment inst...
Leveraging Aerospike to Power Real-time Analytics – Webinar Recording
Kevin Lyons, Senior Vice President of Data Science and Digital Technology and Brent Keator, Vice President Infrastructure – both from Nielsen Marketing Cloud – join Brian Bulkowski, CTO and Co-Founder at Aerospike as they describe the front-edge architecture and...
Swarm-ing Containers: Docker Orchestration at Scale
Aerospike, with its shared-nothing architecture and Smart Client ™, has always been a champion of speed and scale. These qualities are a natural fit for containers, where database horsepower is required to deliver scalable services and microservices. However, all...
AdTech + MarTech = MadTech?
Convergence and consolidation are omnipresent in every industry. Value chains compress, inefficiencies are driven out and business outcomes are delivered. In some cases, convergence happens across two complementary worlds. The world of Advertising technology (AdTech)...
What’s New in Aerospike 3.13 and 3.14?
Aerospike announces our latest releases, Aerospike v3.13 and v3.14, which contain eagerly awaited improvements to the operational usability of Aerospike. Popular for high-performance operational uses at scale, Aerospike has seen ever-increasing adoption thanks to...
Enabling Telco Transformation with Transactional Analytics
Most of us can’t live without our mobile devices. Whether we’re using a smart phone to connect with social media or a tablet to watch videos or shop online, we’re digitally connected. That’s not about to change either. Within the next five years, more than...
Forrester Study on Hybrid Memory NoSQL Architecture for Mission-Critical, Real-Time Systems of Engagement
In this recorded webinar, Forrester Principal Analyst Noel Yuhanna shares recent survey results from IT decision makers to learn about their adoption of a Hybrid Memory Architecture....
2017 DB Trends Powering Real-Time Systems of Engagement
Forrester Principal Analyst Noel Yuhanna, and Aerospike’s CTO and Co-founder, Brian Bulkowski, discussing the challenges companies face in powering real-time digital business applications and Systems of Engagement (SOEs)....
Transforming the Customer Experience with Transactional Analytics
“Creating brilliant engagement between a human and an organization has become an established discipline with tools, frameworks, and transformative change impacts. It’s about coordinating and optimizing the experience across channels and meeting the needs of the...
Transactional Analytics and Gartner’s New Market Guide for HTAP
Gartner recently published a market guide for hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP). It is a must read paper for CIO, data professional and anyone who is involved with analytics driven digital transformation initiative. Gartner’s market guide is a good ...
What’s New in Aerospike 3.12?
Widely adopted in the demanding AdTech space, Aerospike is diversifying its customer base by catering to real-time, mission-critical use cases in other industries, including financial services, e-commerce, telecommunications, and retail. This expansion brings wit...
Aerospike’s Versatility on Pivotal Cloud Foundry Puts It in a Class of Its Own
In 2016, Aerospike initiated its partnership with Pivotal.io, a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Pivotal’s comprehensive cloud-native platform as a service (PaaS), allows enterprises to run in any cl...
Cloud Native in Enterprise: Notes from Container World
Last month, I had the opportunity to attend Container World – Driving Business & Technical Agility in the Enterprise at the Santa Clara Convention Center. A focused event, Container World is an independent conference and expo to bring together the entire Container ...
Intel® Optane™ SSDs and Aerospike Database: a New Level of Fast in Operational Stores for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing
Frank Ober, Data Center Solutions Architect, Intel Intel and Aerospike have a partnership and an engineering relationship stretching back several years. Aerospike’s unique hybrid memory architecture, combined with its focus on operational database workload...
What Is an Aerospike Anyway?
Our company has a cool and interesting name so I thought I’d use this post to explain what an aerospike is, and why it’s such a fitting name for our database and company. Rockets, nose cones and engines In the aeronautical world, an aerospike can refer to one o...
Aerospike Database Powers Systems of Engagement
In my first blog as the newly appointed head of marketing, I wanted to share why I could not miss the opportunity to be a part of Aerospike. Throughout my career, I’ve been fortunate to work with category-leading software companies: Sun Microsystems with Java; HP ...
What’s New in Aerospike 3.11?
We are excited to announce the release of Aerospike 3.11. This release builds on our core mission of providing customers a highly scalable and performant key value database by adding hybrid memory improvements for greater performance and scale and crucial enterprise ...
Aerospike Customers See Continued Growth and Success in 2016
We’re not really ones for clichés here at Aerospike. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. (Yea, if you’re throwing it at him.) It takes two to tango. (Says the person who hasn’t seen my solo tango.) There’s more than one way to skin a cat. (We’re going to...
PHP 7 vs. PHP 5: A Performance Comparison
About the Aerospike PHP Client, Zend Engine, and PHPNG Written by Amine Rihane The Aerospike API Client for PHP is built on top of the Aerospike C Client as an extension for PHP. If you are not familiar with the PHP Client, please refer to our PHP repository on Git...
Aerospike Will No Longer Support the Large Data Type (LDT) Feature
In 2013, Aerospike introduced a new feature known as Large Data Types (LDTs) to enable us to handle data that exceeded our row size limit. Effective immediately, we will no longer actively support the LDT feature and will eventually remove the API. The exact deprecat...
What’s New in Aerospike 3.10?
We are excited to announce the release of Aerospike 3.10. This release builds on our core mission of improving reliability for applications that demand predictable performance with high availability and also provides support for key new deployment environments such a...
Aerospike Now Available on Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Earlier this year, Aerospike initiated its partnership with Pivotal.io, a software and services company based in San Francisco and Palo Alto, CA. We are excited to announce that, with the release of the Aerospike Service Broker Tile on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)...
Five Signs You Have Outgrown Cassandra (and What to Do About It)
Five Signs You Have Outgrown Cassandra (Aerospike vs Cassandra) Cassandra is a well-known NoSQL database, maintained under the Apache Foundation and commercialized by a number of companies. While it’s easy for organizations such as yours to start with Cassandra, yo...
Operational Techniques for Scaling up Real-Time Mission-Critical Infrastructure
AppNexus’s cloud-based software platform powers and optimizes the programmatic sale and purchase of digital advertising. In this recorded webinar, you'll hear how AppNexus scaled its infrastructure without any downtime. Christopher Bowman, Director of Data System...
Dynamically Growing Clusters in Aerospike v3.9.1 and Beyond
Cluster Sizes Prior to 3.9.1 Prior to Aerospike v3.9.1, we defined the maximum cluster size using a config parameter. Cluster size defaulted to 32, with a maximum value of 128: service { paxos-max-cluster-size 32 } Once the cluster was established, it could then...
Aerospike Telemetry: A First Peek into the Data
Aerospike CTO and Co-founder Brian Bulkowski: “On a particular warm and beautiful fall day in 2014, while sitting in a windowless conference room in Palo Alto at The Hive listening to Alistair Croll talk about quantified business and engagement metrics in consume...
Architectures for Digital Transformation and Next Generation Systems of Engagement
Brian Bulkowski (Co-Founder and CTO at Aerospike) and Noel Yuhanna (Principal Analyst at Forrester) discuss three accelerants of Digital Transformation: effective database architectures, data organization strategies, and application design patterns....
Node on FIRE! Optimizing Callback Handler Performance in Aerospike Node.js
Introduction Version 2 of the Aerospike Node.js client was released earlier this year; one of our key focus areas was to improve the client’s performance with the switch to asynchronous, non-blocking I/O. Overall, the v2 client improved performance considerabl...
Aerospike 3.9 Release
What’s New? Carrying on our quarterly release schedule, we are super excited to announce the release of Aerospike Server 3.9. This continues our mission to provide an Enterprise-Grade NoSQL product. As always, we would love to get your feedback on ouruser foru...
Modelling Time-Series Data for Top-Performing Stocks in Aerospike using Sorted Maps
With the new Sorted Map API in Aerospike v3.8.4, it is now possible to store Sorted Map data in Aerospike. This is an experimental feature intended to help make Aerospike easier to use; we look forward to our community’s feedback on the API, which we expect to make ...
Comparing NoSQL Databases – Aerospike vs Cassandra: Benchmarking for Real
Executive Summary In this blog post, we present the results of our comparative 12-hour benchmark of Aerospike 3.8.2.3 vs Apache Cassandra 3.5.0 using a mixed read/write workload typical of modern internet applications. The benchmark uses YCSB (Yahoo! Cloud Ser...
Rapid Rebalance: Enterprise-Grade Migrations
Introduction Migrations are the process of rebalancing and syncing partitions after a cluster disruption event such as a link failure, node restart, etc. With Aerospike Enterprise v3.8.3, we have reduced the typical cluster migration time by 40x. Operations tea...
A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Aerospike 3.8 Supercharges Cross Datacenter Replication (XDR)
A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins… … in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Boardman, Oregon, a part of the US-West region of AWS, where client machines write hundreds of thousands of records every second to an Aerospike cluster. This is the story of how...
Win-Win: Greater Speed and Lower Latency with Aerospike’s Node.js Client v2.0
As promised in the March 2016 announcement of the Aerospike Node.js Client v2.0 early adopter release, today we are going to take a closer look at the performance gains resulting from the switch to non-blocking I/O in the underlying Aerospike C/C++ client library. As...
The Inglorious Developer Experience (DX) – Spring 2016 Edition
It’s been a quarter since we launched our Developer Experience (DX) manifesto. So what’s been happening since? Well, a whole lot of interesting things, all focused on helping you, the developer, build better, more engaging applications – faster. But first, let’s ...
Aerospike 3.8 Release
What’s New Carrying on our quarterly release schedule, we are super excited to announce the release of Aerospike Server 3.8. This version builds on our core mission of Speed at Scale by providing a set of features that are well-aligned with this mission and enab...
Leveraging Big Data with Hadoop, NoSQL and RDBMS
When it comes to capturing and analyzing data, IT departments have more choices today than ever. However, in order to pick the right tool for the job, you need to fully understand your requirements as well as your choices. This is certainly true in the world of Big Data....
A Change is Gonna Come: Early Adopter Release for Aerospike Node.js Client v2.0
Today, we are announcing the Early Adopter release of version 2.0 of the Aerospike Node.js client. Version 2.0 represents a major update to the Node.js client library with some user-visible changes, as well as lots of refactoring under the hood. Please find below a l...
Async C Client: Opening the Door to Event-Based Processing
The Aerospike C/C++ client, version 4.0, is the latest client to support asynchronous programming. In doing so, it joins the Java and C# clients. The C client has async interface functions for put, get, operate, apply, and other single-record commands, as well as for...
Aerospike Python Client 2.0: Support for Python 3
The 2.0 version of the Aerospike Python client is a major release: it adds support for Python 3. Therefore, the client software is now compatible with Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5. For those of you migrating your application from Python 2 to Python 3, ther...
Open Source Databases: The Unknown Community
It’s hard to judge how popular – and how well-used – an open source project is. At Aerospike, we’d also like more insight into the use of our open source database software. To this end, we propose to collect statistics from running Aerospike clusters to better un...
NoSQL Databases & Docker Containers from Development to Deployment
In this talk, we review what Docker is and why it’s important to Developers, Admins and DevOps when they are using a NoSQL Database such as Aerospike, the enterprise-grade NoSQL database....
Play 2.0: Scalable Caching and Session Store Plugins with Aerospike
The performance of the caching tier could make or break your application. We at Aerospike have released caching and session store plugins for the Play Framework. Thanks to these plugins, you’ll be able to use the Aerospike database quickly and easily within the P...
Drone-nado: Building Scalable Geospatial Applications with Aerospike
Today’s Geospatial Problem We are accustomed to Geolocation-aware applications like Foursquare, Yelp & Uber. These applications rely on performing proximity searches based on your current location to provide what’s interesting, open or fun near you. You can ...
Containers at the Gate: Docker Orchestration at Scale
Note: This blog post is superseded by our 2017 blog post on Docker, which covers best deployment practices with Docker swarm mode. Containers are changing the way applications are architected and deployed. Whether you are using a service or microservice-like arch...
Spring Data for Aerospike
Spring is a common framework used in Enterprise Java applications. Spring hides the complexity of building an Enterprise Java application; it offers numerous helpful modules which abstract the technology details away from the developer so they can concentrate on crea...
Supporting Modern Applications: Data Management for Speed & Scale
Today, more than ever, businesses rely on IT to deliver a competitive edge. They want efficiency, agility and the ability to innovate through better collaboration, visibility and performance. However, as business applications continue to grow more sophisticated, so...
Don't be Frightened by Moving to NoSQL
In this presentation, you will see a comparison of NoSQL technologies and find answers to many questions. What are the conceptual differences between NoSQL and RDBMS? Why consider one versus the other for your use case? What data modeling, architectural and...
Tectonic Shift: A New Foundation for the Data Driven Business
Watch this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran database Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor, as he explains the evolution of database, how we got here, and where the market is headed....
The role of NoSQL in the Next Generation of Financial Informatics
CEO of Oktay Technology, Steve Yatko and CTO and co-founder of Aerospike, Brian Bulkowski will cover how financial institutions using a next generation NoSQL operational data store to achieve speed at scale....
There are 250 Database products, are you running the right one?
Listen in to this informative webinar featuring guest speaker, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Noel Yuhanna and VP of Strategy at Aerospike, Peter Goldmacher, for an overview of the industry, the different types of databases and where NoSQL fits within the...
The Inglorious DX
User Experience (UX) is a key way for application developers to differentiate their products and ensure great adoption and stickiness. UX design-driven applications ultimately enhance the satisfaction of the end user, enabling a compelling, enjoyable experience fo...
Aerospike 3.7.0 Release
We are super excited to announce the release of Aerospike 3.7.0. This builds on our core mission of Speed at Scale by providing a set of features that are well-aligned with this mission and enable building rich, context-aware applications. Geospatial Aerospike can no...
How to Get a Game-Changing Performance Advantage with Intel SSDs and Aerospike
Frank Ober of Intel’s Solutions Group will present and demo how he achieved 1+ million transactions per second on a single dual socket Xeon Server with SSDs using the open source tools of Aerospike for benchmarking....
SilverPush Unifies People, Devices, and Data
As we move to an increasingly connected lifestyle around the world, it is important to understand and track how the same user may be connected via multiple devices such as mobile phone, desktop computer, even a television. Tracking an individual via an application us...
In-Memory Computing at Aerospike Scale
When to Choose and How to Effectively Use JEMalloc When a customer’s business really starts gaining traction and their web traffic ramps up in production, they know to expect increased server resource load. But what do you do when memory usage still keeps on growin...
How to Travel Smart Replacing Cache
Aerospike CMO Monica Pal shares how KAYAK uses Aerospike to put relevant offers in front of people when they are buying tickets and planning their trips....
Aerospike and Intel – proving the next generation of in-memory performance
P3700, Haswell (Xeon E5v3), DDR4. As expected, transistor counts are going up. Database parallelism is the need of the day. These three technologies, from Intel, have arrived, delivering the next generation of in-memory performance. Aerospike couldn’t be happier. A...
Memcache users – Shift, don't Shard
Caching with Memcache Many developers, like those at Snapdeal, start with a relational database and find that performance is insufficient. The pressures of throughput and/or latency force them to use a caching solution like Memcache (aka Memcached) and RAM rather tha...
Aerospike doubles performance, shows 1 M TPS in YCSB tests
About a year ago, Aerospike published a “recipe” describing how a database can be tuned to deliver 1 M TPS on a $5k server. This year we applied many of the changes to Aerospike and doubled performance in YCSB tests. Here is a link to the independent benchmark st...
E-Commerce Done Right: Five Keys to Snapdeal’s Success
As e-commerce continues to rapidly expand on a global scale, the numbers reflect just how powerful this market has become. In the U.S., online marketplace eBay saw $175 billion in sales in 2012 with all signs pointing full speed ahead. On the other side of the world,...
Intel Case Study Highlights how AppNexus increased performance, reliability and serviceability, while reducing their server count
AppNexus technology powers the most innovative trading solutions and marketplaces for Internet advertising. It’s what the world’s most influential advertising and media companies build their businesses on, and what enables them to deliver the ads that deliver the...
eBay Helps Retailers Know Your Holiday Shopping List – Before You Do!
eBay is the 20th most popular site in the world and with $175 billion in sales in 2012, one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world. Satish Katiyar, eBay Advertising CTO, and Prakash Chandra, head of Engineering at eBay Advertising, spoke at a recent Scale W...
Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot and Aerospike
Share:About AuthorPeter Milne, Head of Technology Architecture, Adform All posts by this authorPeter has over 30 years experience in the IT industry. He currently serves as the Technology Architect at Adform, based in Copenhagen, where he actively is involved archite...
Simplicity – the Secret to Scaling
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” – Steve Jobs Ae...
Aerospike Certification Tool (ACT) for Solid State Drive (SSD) Benchmarks
At Aerospike, we serve customers with very strict requirements for latency and throughput. We take these needs very seriously. One of our larger customers needed an expansion of their cluster, and the drives they used were no longer available. They asked us for a re...