Benchmark
Aerospike vs. Redis: the benchmark report is here
What you'll learn
Redis is a well-known in-memory database, but what happens when you need more than in-memory speed? Aerospike delivers the same low-latency performance while processing more, recovering faster, and costing dramatically less at scale.
This independent benchmark by McKnight Consulting Group compares Aerospike and Redis across 1 TB, 5 TB, and 10 TB workloads at 70/30 and 100/0 read/write ratios. Aerospike outperforms Redis on latency, throughput, cost efficiency, and resilience.
Key highlights
Aerospike annual infrastructure costs per transaction were up to 9.5x lower than Redis, delivering the same speed at a fraction of the price
Aerospike achieved 17% to 48% lower p99 latency than Redis across all workloads, with consistent, predictable performance from 1 TB to 10 TB
Aerospike handled 11% to 24% more operations per second than Redis, even in write-heavy scenarios, thanks to its Hybrid Memory Architecture
Aerospike recovered from failure in as little as three minutes with minimal throughput loss, while Redis took up to 57 minutes to recover
Redis failover left acknowledged writes vulnerable to loss, while Aerospike maintained data integrity and stable behavior throughout resilience tests