Aerospike on Google Compute Engine

Aerospike, an open-source distributed NoSQL database, is a fast, multithreaded key-value store. Because Aerospike is optimized for flash memory and RAM, it can be configured to run as a lightning-quick in-memory database or, to scale with the price and performance of flash memory, as a hybrid database that stores its indexes in RAM and its data on SSDs.

For both read and write loads, Aerospike tests in pure RAM on the Google Cloud Platform demonstrate:

• High throughput
  • 1,000,000 writes-per-second with just 50 Aerospike servers
  • 1,000,000 reads-per-second with just 10 Aerospike servers
• Low latency with no jitter
  • 7 ms median latency for server-side writes, with 83% of writes taking less than 16 ms and 96% taking less than 32 ms
  • 1 ms median latency for server-side reads, with 80% of reads taking less than 4 ms and 96.5% taking less than 16 ms

Using local SSDs on Google Compute Engine, Aerospike delivers similar results – roughly half the read throughput speed and 25 times the capacity – at a signficantly lower cost than configuration which used pure RAM.

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