Aerospike

Short description: Technology company based in Mountain View, California, US

Aerospike

Type| Private
Industry| NoSQL
Founded| Mountain View California 2009
Founder| Brian Bulkowski, Srini Srinivasan
Headquarters|

Mountain View

U.S.

Key people

| John Dillon (CEO), Srini Srinivasan, Jim LoDestro, Lenley Hensarling
Products| Aerospike (database)

Number of employees

| 101-200 (2020)
Website| aerospike.com

Aerospike is the company behind the Aerospike open source NoSQL distributed database management system.[1][2] Citrusleaf, a Mountain View, California based company which rebranded to Aerospike in August 2012, announced the product in 2011.[3][4][5] The software is used by developers to deploy real-time big data applications.[5][6]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Aerospike database
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading

## History

Citrusleaf was founded in 2009 by CTO Brian Bulkowski and vice president of engineering and operations Srini V. Srinivasan.[1][3][4] The company rebranded to Aerospike in 2012.[3] The database was initially[when?] used mainly in the advertising industry as a server-side cookie store, where read and write performance is paramount.[6][7] It formed the core user data storage for adMarketplace and several other advertising companies including BlueKai, Tapad, The Trade Desk, Sony's So-net, and eXelate. Other customers include payment systems, gaming, cyber-security, and e-commerce industries.[7][8] In 2012, the web site Wikibon promoted Aerospike for transactional analytic applications.[6][7] It had automatic fail-over, replication, and cross data center synchronization.[7][9][10][11]

In August 2012, Aerospike acquired the database AlchemyDB.[12] AlchemyDB, led by Russell Sullivan, is a hybrid RDBMS/NoSQL-datastore that has been optimized for memory efficiency.[3][12] Aerospike made the acquisition with funding from New Enterprise Associates, Draper Associates, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, and Alsop Louie Partners.[8][13]

In December 2012, online ad broker Tapad bought an Aerospike flash-based NoSQL database running on SSDs with indices held in RAM.[2][5] The Aerospike database allowed Tapad the cost benefit of dealing with memory as a "single level store" by utilizing flash as a memory extension.[2]

In June 2014, Aerospike raised $20 million in a Series C round of funding. The company announced it had open sourced its technology.[14][15][16] The company also partnered with Adform, InMobi, and Vizury in 2014.[17][18]

In February 2015, Aerospike named John Dillon, previously of Salesforce.com, as its CEO.[19][20]

A round of $32 million of funding was announced on November 18, 2019, led by Triangle Peak Partners.[21]

## Aerospike database

Main article: Software:Aerospike (database)

The Aerospike database management system is a key-value datastore, or distributed hash table, that delivers predictable, sub-millisecond query response times.[8][12] It also has the ability to scale to very large sizes while maintaining high speeds.[8][12] Its code is engineered to match the characteristics of flash memory, as opposed to more traditional methods.[22]

Aerospike uses row-based random access with indexes in memory and data in memory or on SSD (solid-state drive) storage.[7][8] The database holds data that is accessible in real time.[7]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mellor, Chris (December 18, 2012). "Secrets of an ad broker: NoSQL, millisecond auctions and FLASH ARRAYS". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/18/tapad_aerospike/. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 MARIA DEUTSCHER (16 January 2013). "Aerospike is 10x Faster than What You're Using Now". Silicon Angle. http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/01/16/aerospike-is-10x-faster-than-what-youre-using-now/?angle=silicon&link=mostrecent. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "AeroSpike, the former Citrusleaf". DBMS2. http://www.dbms2.com/2012/08/27/aerospike-the-former-citrusleaf/. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Citrusleaf used for Real-time Attribution". Aerospike. http://www.aerospike.com/news/real-time_attribution/. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chris O'Hara (December 2012). "Best Practices in Data Management". Econsultancy. http://econsultancy.com/us/reports/best-practices-in-data-management. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 David Floyer (December 21, 2012). "Data in DRAM is a Flash in the Pan". Wikibon. http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Data_in_DRAM_is_a_Flash_in_the_Pan. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 David Vellante (November 30, 2012). "Big Fast Data Needs Stress Traditional DBMS Approaches". Wikibon. http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Big_Fast_Data_Needs_Stress_Traditional_DBMS_Approaches. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 John W. Verity (November 20, 2012). "A New Approach to DBMS Performance: In-Flash". Data Center Acceleration. http://www.datacenteracceleration.com/author.asp?section_id=2412&doc_id=254634&f_src=datacenteracceleration_sitedefault. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
9. ↑ "Ultra-High Performance Benchmarking". ThumbTack. http://www.thumbtack.net/solutions/documents/Ultra-HighPerformanceNoSQLBenchmarking.pdf. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
10. ↑ "Aerospike Beats Out Cassandra, Couchbase + MongoDB : Handles Node Failure Like a Champ". Silicon Angle. http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/04/02/aerospike-beats-out-cassandra-couchbase-mongodb-handles-node-failure-like-a-champ/. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
11. ↑ "Flash and Hyperscale Changing Database and System Design Forever". Wikibon. http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Flash_and_Hyperscale_Changing_Database_and_System_Design_Forever. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Delaney Rebernik. "Effective 'big data' strategy helps advertising firm attract clients". Search Data Management. http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/feature/Effective-big-data-strategy-helps-advertising-firm-attract-clients. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
13. ↑ KLINT FINLEY (August 28, 2012). "Grim And Gritty Startup Reboot: NoSQL Company Citrusleaf Changes Name And Acquires AlchemyDB". Tech Crunch. https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/nosql-company-citrusleaf-lands-series-b-funding-changes-name-and-acquires-alchemydb/. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
14. ↑ Derrick Harris (24 June 2014). "Aerospike raises $20M, open sources its in-memory NoSQL database". Gigaom. http://gigaom.com/2014/06/24/aerospike-raises-20m-open-sources-its-in-memory-nosql-database/. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
15. ↑ Liz Rowley (24 June 2014). "Aerospike Open Sources Its Database, Raises $20M In Funding". Ad Exchanger. http://www.adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/aerospike-open-sources-its-database-raises-19-3m-in-funding/. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
16. ↑ Jack Clark (24 June 2014). "Aerospike: Thanks for that $20m, VCs ... next we'll OPEN SOURCE our NoSQL database". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/24/aerospike_database_open_source/. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
17. ↑ Hans Lombardo (25 July 2014). "Adtechs InMobi, Vizury Using NoSQL DB Aerospike". Big Data Phile. http://bigdataphile.com/2014/07/adtechs-inmobi-vizury-using-nosql-db-aerospike/. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
18. ↑ Jakob Bak (6 October 2014). "Selecting the Right Database for the Right Job". Datanami. http://www.datanami.com/2014/10/06/selecting-right-database-right-job/. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
19. ↑ Gina Hall (February 5, 2015). "Aerospike names John Dillon CEO". Silicon Valley Business Journal. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/02/aerospike-names-john-dillon-ceo.html.
20. ↑ Jason Verge (February 9, 2015). "Former Engine Yard CEO Dillon Joins Aerospike as Chief Exec". Data Center Knowledge. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/02/09/former-engine-yard-ceo-dillon-joins-aerospike-as-chief-exec/. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
21. ↑ George Leopold (November 18, 2019). "Aerospike Raises More Cash". Datanami. https://www.datanami.com/2019/11/18/aerospike-raises-more-cash/.
22. ↑ "IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Benefits of Real-Time NoSQL". It Brief Case. http://www.itbriefcase.net/it-briefcase-interview-the-benefits-of-nosql-aerospike. Retrieved 11 April 2013.

## Further reading

* Forrester: NoSQL Key-Value Databases, Q3 2014

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