Aerospike vs. Apache Cassandra: Performance, resilience, and cost-efficiency at scale
Independent benchmark results comparing Aerospike 8.0.4 and Apache Cassandra 5.0.3 in three production-grade scenarios.
Aerospike significantly outperformed Cassandra, achieving up to 3.5x higher throughput, 9x lower P99 read latency, and 5.2x greater cost-efficiency using fewer nodes.
Download this report to learn:
How Aerospike sustained 480K ops/sec with <1ms P99 latency
Why Cassandra required 50% more hardware, and still underperformed
How both databases handled live scale-out and node failure
Total cost-per-throughput breakdowns across clusters
What it means for building real-time, high-scale applications
Aerospike vs. Apache Cassandra: Performance, resilience, and cost-efficiency at scale
Choosing the right database at scale isn’t just about speed—it’s about predictability under pressure. In this independent benchmark, Aerospike 8.0.4 and Apache Cassandra 5.0.3 were tested head-to-head across 4.4 billion operations using a real-world YCSB workload. With cluster sizing and latency targets modeled on production environments, the report reveals how each database performs under mixed workloads, scale-out events, and node failure scenarios.
