Aerospike (company)

Technology company based in Mountain View, California, US

Aerospike

Company 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 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]

## History

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Citrusleaf was founded in 2009 by Gian-Paolo Musumeci, 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]

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

## Aerospike database

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Main article: 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

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1. ^ a b Mellor, Chris (December 18, 2012). "Secrets of an ad broker: NoSQL, millisecond auctions and FLASH ARRAYS". The Register. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
2. ^ a b c MARIA DEUTSCHER (16 January 2013). "Aerospike is 10x Faster than What You're Using Now". Silicon Angle. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
3. ^ a b c d "AeroSpike, the former Citrusleaf". DBMS2. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
4. ^ a b "Citrusleaf used for Real-time Attribution". Aerospike. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
5. ^ a b c Chris O'Hara (December 2012). "Best Practices in Data Management". Econsultancy. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
6. ^ a b c David Floyer (December 21, 2012). "Data in DRAM is a Flash in the Pan". Wikibon. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
7. ^ a b c d e f David Vellante (November 30, 2012). "Big Fast Data Needs Stress Traditional DBMS Approaches". Wikibon. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
8. ^ a b c d e John W. Verity (November 20, 2012). "A New Approach to DBMS Performance: In-Flash". Data Center Acceleration. Archived from the original on June 28, 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
9. ^ "Ultra-High Performance Benchmarking" (PDF). ThumbTack. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
10. ^ "Aerospike Beats Out Cassandra, Couchbase + MongoDB : Handles Node Failure Like a Champ". Silicon Angle. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
11. ^ "Flash and Hyperscale Changing Database and System Design Forever". Wikibon. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
12. ^ a b c d Delaney Rebernik. "Effective 'big data' strategy helps advertising firm attract clients". Search Data Management. 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. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
14. ^ Derrick Harris (24 June 2014). "Aerospike raises $20M, open sources its in-memory NoSQL database". Gigaom. Archived from the original on June 25, 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
15. ^ Liz Rowley (24 June 2014). "Aerospike Open Sources Its Database, Raises $20M In Funding". Ad Exchanger. 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. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
17. ^ Hans Lombardo (25 July 2014). "Adtechs InMobi, Vizury Using NoSQL DB Aerospike". Big Data Phile. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
18. ^ Jakob Bak (6 October 2014). "Selecting the Right Database for the Right Job". Datanami. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
19. ^ Gina Hall (February 5, 2015). "Aerospike names John Dillon CEO". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
20. ^ Jason Verge (February 9, 2015). "Former Engine Yard CEO Dillon Joins Aerospike as Chief Exec". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
21. ^ George Leopold (November 18, 2019). "Aerospike Raises More Cash". Datanami. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
22. ^ "IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Benefits of Real-Time NoSQL". It Brief Case. Retrieved 11 April 2013.

## Further reading

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* Forrester: NoSQL Key-Value Databases, Q3 2014