April 2019 Summaries

Aerospike Summit '19 is approaching with limited seating available for the May 1-2 event. The summit offers an outstanding presentation lineup featuring speakers from market leaders such as PayPal, Airtel, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Attendees can network with CIOs, chief data officers, business and IT leaders, architects, and technologists from around the world. Breaking news from Aerospike will be shared, including business use cases, technical deployment strategies, and updates on their roadmap. The summit also covers market demands for real-time decisioning and operational excellence in today's edge computing environment. Finally, the event takes place at a great location in downtown San Francisco, with easy access to various attractions.

In March, Aerospike launched its REST Client as part of the Aerospike Connect product portfolio to facilitate application development and integration of the Aerospike Database into enterprise infrastructure systems. The Aerospike REST Client is a standard interface that allows developers to work with the Aerospike data layer using their preferred programming language. It supports various functionalities such as retrieving basic information about the Aerospike Cluster, single record requests, multiple record reads in a single request, and more. These different functionalities are exposed through distinct endpoints. The Aerospike REST Client Medium post provides technical details and hands-on examples of using this tool.

The digital payments marketplace is rapidly growing and businesses are struggling to adapt quickly enough to keep up with customer expectations for frictionless transactions, security, and reliability. Traditional financial institutions like banks may not be equipped to handle these challenges alone and must turn to technology solutions if they want to retain customers. Aerospike founder and Chief Development Officer Srini Srinivasan emphasizes the importance of user experience in digital payments and suggests that companies should "build with users, not just for them." By using data as a strategic weapon and collaborating with target communities like retailers, businesses can design services that provide a better shopping experience. Aerospike has made a significant difference for companies such as PayPal, Major European Bank, Threatmatrix, and Charles Schwab by providing a database that can handle large data volumes in milliseconds at low cost and high reliability. As the demand for digital payments grows, businesses will need technology to accurately identify and lock out cybercriminals while handling an increasing number of users.

Aerospike has become the first open database to support Intel Optane persistent memory, offering massive improvements in scale and resilience. The integration allows for easy configuration of nodes surpassing 100TB each in size. Aerospike's Hybrid DRAM indexes are no longer limited by common sizes or costs of operational DRAM. Reliability is improved with faster reboot times, while performance remains high, outperforming older "in-memory database" technology. The collaboration between Aerospike and Intel aims to revolutionize the Persistent Memory database market.