October 2024
Intermediate to advanced
220 pages
6h 26m
English
Content preview from Aerospike: Up and Running
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Aerospike
Aerospike is a distributed NoSQL database with exceptional speed on both reads and writes and a strong uptime percentage. This sounds reasonable and normal for a database, but it doesn’t put into perspective the capabilities of this software.
In the data management industry, we have certain limitations in our minds as to what a database can do. Aerospike doesn’t live by those restrictions. Submillisecond transaction speeds are normal, even on petabyte-scale data volumes, without resorting to huge clusters. This is not what any sensible, experienced data analyst or database administrator expects. To truly understand and get what you want most out of Aerospike, you’ll have to set aside a certain amount of what you “know” and come at this with an open mind.
NoSQL databases have traditionally achieved high performance and scale by relaxing consistency guarantees. However, this trade-off is a poor choice for use cases that require a high level of data correctness. A majority of applications contain some data requiring correctness and consistency, such as financial data, as well as data that can tolerate limited consistency violations, such as data from clickstreams.
Aerospike maintains strong consistency along with high-performance characteristics that have been proven in hundreds of mission-critical production deployments with several years of continuous uptime in the face of typical hardware and network failures. The type of strong consistency ...
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