Aerospike: Up and Running

Preface

The last decade has seen the rise of many new database technologies to address the needs of the internet and mobile applications that have become ubiquitous. These systems were built to satisfy consumers whose behavior has changed drastically, as they now expect real-time services from every enterprise with which they are interacting. As a result, there has been a huge increase in the number of new database technologies invented to help make this happen.

In this book, we present a modern, high-performance distributed database system that has all of the important features of traditional database systems like strong consistency, durability, and availability while also providing real-time distributed transactional and query capabilities at scale for a wide variety of real-time applications that previous generations of technologies could not satisfactorily handle.

The people who will benefit from this book are those who want to learn how to rapidly develop real-time applications in the service of millions of consumers and quickly ramp up to internet scale. Developing such applications on Aerospike lets you analyze more data in real time to make better decisions within strict, time-bound service-level agreements (SLAs). Aerospike enables you to minimize your per-transaction costs by leveraging the latest in hardware and cloud infrastructure. It increases availability by using synchronous and asynchronous replication mechanisms, preserving strong consistency while maximizing ...