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Aerospike in the IBM Cloud
June 12, 2018Aerospike is an unusual database. It’s fast, it takes less CPU and DRAM, and it pushes storage harder. That’s how it achieves multi-million transaction per second per server rates, with sub-millisecond access times. This speed makes Aero...
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Aerospike Ecosystems – Enabling Frictionless deployment of Aerospike Database in Enterprises
June 8, 2018Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0 have brought enormous amounts of pressure upon traditional enterprises looking to avoid being disrupted by their digitally native competitors. These traditional enterprises (also known as Digital I...
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Aerospike 4.2: Storage Efficiency and Speed Improvements
June 5, 2018Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of our 4.2 release. Close on the heels of our 4.0 release providing consistency, and our 4.1 release with a number of enterprise security and performance features, we have released our 4....
Blog/Technology/Product UpdateAerospike 4.1
May 11, 2018Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of our 4.1 release. After the major 4.0 release introducing consistency, this release has a backlog of interesting enhancements, beyond a number of minor bug fixes. As always, we continue...
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Aerospike 4.0, Strong Consistency, and Jepsen
March 7, 2018“In hundreds of tests of SC mode through network partitions, 3.99.1.5 and higher versions have not shown any sign of nonlinearizable histories, lost increments to counters, or lost updates to sets.” – Kyle Kingsbury, Aerospike 3.99.0.3, ...
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Aerospike accelerates: Strong Consistency with High Performance in Aerospike 4.0
March 7, 2018We are pleased to announce general availability of Aerospike 4.0, which includes strong consistency. Aerospike 4.0’s Strong Consistency technology is a revolutionary leap forward for high fidelity data uses. In cases where an application...
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Adtech and Martech Convergence – How Data is Transforming the Customer Journey
February 26, 2018Technology is constantly changing and the pace seems to be increasing – transformational change seems to occur more rapidly than ever. Not too long ago, advertisers and marketers invested thousands and thousands of dollars for what was...
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GDPR and Its Impact on Data Strategy
February 8, 2018Digitization comes at a cost. Each of us now leaves a trail of digital exhaust, an infinite stream of phone records, texts, browser histories, preferences, buying patterns, location, and other information that will live on forever. Oce...
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5 Signs You Should Consider Aerospike Over Amazon DynamoDB
January 31, 2018Here’s the Sign(s) Companies choose databases with both core business objectives and technical objectives in mind. Often they select a database that seems to be the best choice at first glance, as well as the path of least resistance, ...
Blog/Business/DynamoDBMeltdown / Spectre and Aerospike
January 10, 2018Executive Summary The Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs require OS and cloud hypervisor patches to provide data security. These patches, while necessary, come at a performance cost. In general, we have seen few impacts across the Aerospike...
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How Aerospike is Redefining Fast by using Intel Architecture – Intel® Chip Chat Podcast
November 29, 2017Intel® Chip Chat is a recurring podcast series of informal, one-on-one interviews, and last week, its host, Allyson Klein, interviewed Aerospike Head of Product and Solutions Marketing, Satish Iyer about how Aerospike is “Redefining F...
Blog/Technology/Aerospike TechnologyAerospike Has Removed the Large Data Type (LDT) Feature
October 26, 2017In 2013, Aerospike introduced a new feature known as Large Data Types (LDTs) to enable Aerospike to handle data that exceeded our row size limit. On November 14, 2016, in this blog post, we announced that the feature was deprecated an...
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The 7 Year Itch: How Aerospike decided to transform the database status-quo (Part 2 of 2)
October 26, 2017As we mentioned in the first part [0] of this blog, Aerospike 4.0 read/write operations on a single record can be made strictly linearizable [3] (preserving sequential read/write accesses to a record in multiple concurrent execut...
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Aerospike takes a major step to transform the Enterprise SoE
October 17, 2017Data Resides at the Core of Digital Transformation Enterprises are transforming to stay competitive and relevant in the digital age. The vitality of customer experience and deeper engagement necessitates the Enterprises to embrace di...
Blog/Technology/Business/Aerospike TechnologyThe 7 Year Itch: How Aerospike decided to transform the database status-quo (Part 1 of 2)
October 17, 2017Since 2010, the Aerospike Real-Time Operational DBMS [1] has been in widespread use for handling real mission-critical applications in the areas of real-time bidding for AdTech, fraud detection for Online Payments, continuous risk ma...
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Aerospike and Swiggy – from Data to Delivery
October 11, 2017Food Delivery and Data Over the past few years, food and grocery delivery has been one of most disrupted space. The space garnered more investments and more players, making it one of the most competitive sectors. Though the value pr...
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IIoT: The Light at the End of the “Dark Data” Tunnel?
September 6, 2017The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), also known as the Industrial Internet, brings together brilliant machines, advanced analytics, and people at work. It’s a network of a multitude of devices connected by communications techn...
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Creating Value with Fast Decisioning in the World of Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2)
August 30, 2017PSD2, or Payment Services Directive 2 as it is lovingly known, triggers a broad range of emotions from financial institutions (FIs) – ranging from glee, hope, annoyance, and anger to straight fear. The FIs that are happy (there...
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Swarm-ing Containers: Docker Orchestration at Scale
August 25, 2017Aerospike, with its shared-nothing architecture and Smart Client ™, has always been a champion of speed and scale. These qualities are a natural fit for containers, where database horsepower is required to deliver scalable services a...
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AdTech + MarTech = MadTech?
August 4, 2017Convergence and consolidation are omnipresent in every industry. Value chains compress, inefficiencies are driven out and business outcomes are delivered. In some cases, convergence happens across two complementary worlds. The world of...
Blog/Business/Adtech MartechWhat’s New in Aerospike 3.13 and 3.14?
June 20, 2017Aerospike announces our latest releases, Aerospike v3.13 and v3.14, which contain eagerly awaited improvements to the operational usability of Aerospike. Popular for high-performance operational uses at scale, Aerospike has seen ever...
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Enabling Telco Transformation with Transactional Analytics
June 18, 2017Most of us can’t live without our mobile devices. Whether we’re using a smart phone to connect with social media or a tablet to watch videos or shop online, we’re digitally connected. That’s not about to change either. Within ...
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Transforming the Customer Experience with Transactional Analytics
June 8, 2017“Creating brilliant engagement between a human and an organization has become an established discipline with tools, frameworks, and transformative change impacts. It’s about coordinating and optimizing the experience across channel...
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Transactional Analytics and Gartner’s New Market Guide for HTAP
April 30, 2017Gartner recently published a market guide for hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP). It is a must read paper for CIO, data professional and anyone who is involved with analytics driven digital transformation initiative. Gartn...
Blog/BusinessWhat’s New in Aerospike 3.12?
April 4, 2017Widely adopted in the demanding AdTech space, Aerospike is diversifying its customer base by catering to real-time, mission-critical use cases in other industries, including financial services, e-commerce, telecommunications, and ret...
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Aerospike’s Versatility on Pivotal Cloud Foundry Puts It in a Class of Its Own
March 31, 2017In 2016, Aerospike initiated its partnership with Pivotal.io, a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Pivotal’s comprehensive cloud-native platform as a service (PaaS), allow...
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Cloud Native in Enterprise: Notes from Container World
March 21, 2017Last month, I had the opportunity to attend Container World – Driving Business & Technical Agility in the Enterprise at the Santa Clara Convention Center. A focused event, Container World is an independent conference and expo to brin...
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Intel® Optane™ SSDs and Aerospike Database: a New Level of Fast in Operational Stores for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing
March 19, 2017Frank Ober, Data Center Solutions Architect, Intel Intel and Aerospike have a partnership and an engineering relationship stretching back several years. Aerospike’s unique hybrid memory architecture, combined with its focus on...
Blog/Technology/Aerospike TechnologyWhat Is an Aerospike Anyway?
March 10, 2017Our company has a cool and interesting name so I thought I’d use this post to explain what an aerospike is, and why it’s such a fitting name for our database and company. Rockets, nose cones and engines In the aeronautical world, a...
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Aerospike Database Powers Systems of Engagement
February 28, 2017In my first blog as the newly appointed head of marketing, I wanted to share why I could not miss the opportunity to be a part of Aerospike. Throughout my career, I’ve been fortunate to work with category-leading software companies: ...
Blog/BusinessWhat’s New in Aerospike 3.11?
January 31, 2017We are excited to announce the release of Aerospike 3.11. This release builds on our core mission of providing customers a highly scalable and performant key value database by adding hybrid memory improvements for greater performance and...
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Aerospike Data Modeling Part 5: Bucketing
December 21, 2016Aerospike has a maximum record size, which is not an uncommon restriction in a database. When using storage, the entire record is located consecutively, creating predictability as well as performance. Through embedding, we can model and ...
Blog/Technology/Data ModelingAerospike Customers See Continued Growth and Success in 2016
December 20, 2016We’re not really ones for clichés here at Aerospike. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. (Yea, if you’re throwing it at him.) It takes two to tango. (Says the person who hasn’t seen my solo tango.) There’s more than one way to...
Blog/BusinessAerospike Data Modeling Part 4: Inventory Control
December 19, 2016Have you ever tried to buy a concert ticket only to be told as you’re checking out that a ticket at the price you selected is no longer available? And what about trying to book flights? Airline reservation systems are notorious for ret...
Blog/Technology/Data ModelingAerospike Data Modeling Part 3: State Machines and Queues
December 13, 2016A common data pattern revolves around managing states and ensuring consistent transitions between states. This could be anything from a fulfillment process to workflows or other systems that require maintaining state. In this section, we...
Blog/Technology/Data ModelingAerospike Data Modeling Part 2: The Faceting Pattern
December 2, 2016Faceting is a pattern that can be applied to many domain problems. In this context, faceting presents summaries of important metrics and trends and aggregations of key quantitative and qualitative information sources. Applying faceting t...
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PHP 7 vs. PHP 5: A Performance Comparison
December 1, 2016About the Aerospike PHP Client, Zend Engine, and PHPNG Written by Amine Rihane The Aerospike API Client for PHP is built on top of the Aerospike C Client as an extension for PHP. If you are not familiar with the PHP Client, please refe...
Blog/Technology/Aerospike TechnologyAerospike Data Modeling Part 1: Embedding, Linking, and Denormalization
November 17, 2016The first section reviews the basic data modeling concepts of encapsulation and embedding, linking, and denormalization. These concepts will be built upon throughout this article. Encapsulation and Embedding The Aerospike record def...
Blog/Technology/Data ModelingAerospike Will No Longer Support the Large Data Type (LDT) Feature
November 14, 2016In 2013, Aerospike introduced a new feature known as Large Data Types (LDTs) to enable us to handle data that exceeded our row size limit. Effective immediately, we will no longer actively support the LDT feature and will eventually remo...
Blog/Technology/Product UpdateWhat’s New in Aerospike 3.10?
October 25, 2016We are excited to announce the release of Aerospike 3.10. This release builds on our core mission of improving reliability for applications that demand predictable performance with high availability and also provides support for key new ...
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Aerospike Now Available on Pivotal Cloud Foundry
October 19, 2016Earlier this year, Aerospike initiated its partnership with Pivotal.io, a software and services company based in San Francisco and Palo Alto, CA. We are excited to announce that, with the release of the Aerospike Service Broker Tile on t...
Blog/Technology/Cloud/Product UpdateModeling Your Data with Aerospike
October 12, 2016Data modeling is often the first step in database design and usually involves a progression from conceptual model to logical model to physical schema. But, as Aerospike is a key-value store, the way you think about, model, and access you...
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Five Signs You Have Outgrown Cassandra (and What to Do About It)
September 1, 2016Executive Summary Cassandra is a well-known NoSQL database, maintained under the Apache Foundation and commercialized by a number of companies. While it’s easy for organizations such as yours to start with Cassandra, you find yourself ...
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Dynamically Growing Clusters in Aerospike v3.9.1 and Beyond
August 13, 2016Cluster Sizes Prior to 3.9.1 Prior to Aerospike v3.9.1, we defined the maximum cluster size using a config parameter. Cluster size defaulted to 32, with a maximum value of 128: service { paxos-max-cluster-size 32 } Once the cluster ...
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Aerospike Telemetry: A First Peek into the Data
August 1, 2016Aerospike CTO and Co-founder Brian Bulkowski: “On a particular warm and beautiful fall day in 2014, while sitting in a windowless conference room in Palo Alto at The Hive listening to Alistair Croll talk about quantified business and...
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Node on FIRE! Optimizing Callback Handler Performance in Aerospike Node.js
July 19, 2016Introduction Version 2 of the Aerospike Node.js client was released earlier this year; one of our key focus areas was to improve the client’s performance with the switch to asynchronous, non-blocking I/O. Overall, the v2 client im...
Blog/Technology/Aerospike TechnologyAerospike 3.9 Release
July 12, 2016What’s New? Carrying on our quarterly release schedule, we are super excited to announce the release of Aerospike Server 3.9. This continues our mission to provide an Enterprise-Grade NoSQL product. As always, we would love to get...
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Modelling Time-Series Data for Top-Performing Stocks in Aerospike using Sorted Maps
July 6, 2016With the new Sorted Map API in Aerospike v3.8.4, it is now possible to store Sorted Map data in Aerospike. This is an experimental feature intended to help make Aerospike easier to use; we look forward to our community’s feedback on the...
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Comparing NoSQL Databases – Aerospike and Cassandra: Benchmarking for Real
June 28, 2016Executive Summary In this blog post, we present the results of our comparative 12-hour benchmark of Aerospike 3.8.2.3 vs Apache Cassandra 3.5.0 using a mixed read/write workload typical of modern internet applications. The benchmark u...
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Rapid Rebalance: Enterprise-Grade Migrations
June 21, 2016Introduction Migrations are the process of rebalancing and syncing partitions after a cluster disruption event such as a link failure, node restart, etc. With Aerospike Enterprise v3.8.3, we have reduced the typical cluster migrati...
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A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Aerospike 3.8 Supercharges Cross Datacenter Replication (XDR)
June 2, 2016A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins… … in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Boardman, Oregon, a part of the US-West region of AWS, where client machines write hundreds of thousands of records every second to an Aerospike clu...
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Win-Win: Greater Speed and Lower Latency with Aerospike’s Node.js Client v2.0
May 17, 2016As promised in the March 2016 announcement of the Aerospike Node.js Client v2.0 early adopter release, today we are going to take a closer look at the performance gains resulting from the switch to non-blocking I/O in the underlying Aero...
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The Inglorious Developer Experience (DX) – Spring 2016 Edition
April 26, 2016It’s been a quarter since we launched our Developer Experience (DX) manifesto. So what’s been happening since? Well, a whole lot of interesting things, all focused on helping you, the developer, build better, more engaging applications...
Blog/TechnologyAerospike 3.8 Release
April 16, 2016What’s New Carrying on our quarterly release schedule, we are super excited to announce the release of Aerospike Server 3.8. This version builds on our core mission of Speed at Scale by providing a set of features that are well-alig...
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A Change is Gonna Come: Early Adopter Release for Aerospike Node.js Client v2.0
March 31, 2016Today, we are announcing the Early Adopter release of version 2.0 of the Aerospike Node.js client. Version 2.0 represents a major update to the Node.js client library with some user-visible changes, as well as lots of refactoring under t...
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Async C Client: Opening the Door to Event-Based Processing
March 16, 2016The Aerospike C/C++ client, version 4.0, is the latest client to support asynchronous programming. In doing so, it joins the Java and C# clients. The C client has async interface functions for put, get, operate, apply, and other single-r...
Blog/Technology/Aerospike TechnologyAerospike Python Client 2.0: Support for Python 3
March 7, 2016The 2.0 version of the Aerospike Python client is a major release: it adds support for Python 3. Therefore, the client software is now compatible with Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5. For those of you migrating your application f...
Blog/Technology/Product Update/Aerospike TechnologyOpen Source Databases: The Unknown Community
February 9, 2016It’s hard to judge how popular – and how well-used – an open source project is. At Aerospike, we’d also like more insight into the use of our open source database software. To this end, we propose to collect statistics from running A...
Blog/TechnologyPlay 2.0: Scalable Caching and Session Store Plugins with Aerospike
February 4, 2016The performance of the caching tier could make or break your application. We at Aerospike have released caching and session store plugins for the Play Framework. Thanks to these plugins, you’ll be able to use the Aerospike database q...
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Drone-nado: Building Scalable Geospatial Applications with Aerospike
January 28, 2016Today’s Geospatial Problem We are accustomed to Geolocation-aware applications like Foursquare, Yelp & Uber. These applications rely on performing proximity searches based on your current location to provide what’s interesting, op...
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Containers at the Gate: Docker Orchestration at Scale
January 26, 2016Note: This blog post is superseded by our 2017 blog post on Docker, which covers best deployment practices with Docker swarm mode. Containers are changing the way applications are architected and deployed. Whether you are using a ser...
BlogSpring Data for Aerospike
January 13, 2016Spring is a common framework used in Enterprise Java applications. Spring hides the complexity of building an Enterprise Java application; it offers numerous helpful modules which abstract the technology details away from the developer s...
Blog/Technology/Product UpdateThe Inglorious DX
December 29, 2015User Experience (UX) is a key way for application developers to differentiate their products and ensure great adoption and stickiness. UX design-driven applications ultimately enhance the satisfaction of the end user, enabling a compe...
Blog/TechnologyAerospike 3.7.0 Release
December 14, 2015We are super excited to announce the release of Aerospike 3.7.0. This builds on our core mission of Speed at Scale by providing a set of features that are well-aligned with this mission and enable building rich, context-aware application...
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In-Memory Computing at Aerospike Scale
March 17, 2015When to Choose and How to Effectively Use JEMalloc When a customer’s business really starts gaining traction and their web traffic ramps up in production, they know to expect increased server resource load. But what do you do when memo...
BlogHow to Travel Smart with Cache
October 30, 2014Aerospike CMO Monica Pal shares how KAYAK uses Aerospike to put relevant offers in front of people when they are buying tickets and planning their trips....
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Aerospike and Intel – proving the next generation of in-memory performance
September 8, 2014P3700, Haswell (Xeon E5v3), DDR4. As expected, transistor counts are going up. Database parallelism is the need of the day. These three technologies, from Intel, have arrived, delivering the next generation of in-memory performance. Aero...
BlogMemcache users – Shift, don't Shard
August 17, 2014Caching with Memcache Many developers, like those at Snapdeal, start with a relational database and find that performance is insufficient. The pressures of throughput and/or latency force them to use a caching solution like Memcache (aka...
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Aerospike doubles performance, shows 1 M TPS in YCSB tests
May 6, 2014About a year ago, Aerospike published a “recipe” describing how a database can be tuned to deliver 1 M TPS on a $5k server. This year we applied many of the changes to Aerospike and doubled performance in YCSB tests. Here is a link t...
BlogE-Commerce Done Right: Five Keys to Snapdeal’s Success
April 1, 2014As e-commerce continues to rapidly expand on a global scale, the numbers reflect just how powerful this market has become. In the U.S., online marketplace eBay saw $175 billion in sales in 2012 with all signs pointing full speed ahead. O...
BlogIntel Case Study Highlights how AppNexus increased performance, reliability and serviceability, while reducing their server count
January 10, 2014AppNexus technology powers the most innovative trading solutions and marketplaces for Internet advertising. It’s what the world’s most influential advertising and media companies build their businesses on, and what enables them to de...
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eBay Helps Retailers Know Your Holiday Shopping List – Before You Do!
November 19, 2013eBay is the 20th most popular site in the world and with $175 billion in sales in 2012, one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world. Satish Katiyar, eBay Advertising CTO, and Prakash Chandra, head of Engineering at eBay Advertis...
BlogBuilding a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot and Aerospike
October 7, 2013About AuthorPeter Milne All posts by this author< Previous PostNext Post >...
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Simplicity – the Secret to Scaling
August 18, 2013“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move m...
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Aerospike Certification Tool (ACT) for Solid State Drive (SSD) Benchmarks
May 7, 2012At Aerospike, we serve customers with very strict requirements for latency and throughput. We take these needs very seriously. One of our larger customers needed an expansion of their cluster, and the drives they used were no longer ava...
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