December 2019 Summaries

The shift in business models due to the subscription economy has increased pressure on businesses to deliver real-time, contextually relevant experiences across the entire consumer journey. Data remains a core battleground for creating unified customer experiences, with businesses needing to capture and unify disparate sources of consumer data, effectively contextualize and operationalize information, and push critical insights across channels and organizational stakeholder groups. Businesses need to invest in newer digital commerce platforms that can create immersive experiences at every step of the consumer journey, focusing on content and context for hyper-personalization and storytelling. Experiences, not products, remain the battleground of the future as businesses rethink their engagement model to deliver consistent, differentiated experiences throughout the customer journey.

Aerospike is a distributed key-value database designed for high throughput and minimal latency at scale. It supports zero downtime upgrades since version 2, with simplicity being a key advantage over other vendors. The primary key index is held in shared memory, allowing for rapid reattachment after an upgrade without the need for an index rebuild. For server reboots requiring OS updates or hardware maintenance, Aerospike offers the quiesce feature to ensure data resilience and allow for a smooth transition from one cluster to another. This approach can be faster than cycling through multiple update-then-reboot cycles.

Aerospike has released version 4.8 with enhanced support for Persistent Memory (PMEM) and compression. The new release allows storing record data in Intel® Optane™ DC PMEM, offering unparalleled performance while retaining both persistence and fast reboot capabilities. Additionally, the Compressed Request/Response API Policy extends compression to the transmission of data between client and servers, increasing throughput and mitigating network bandwidth limitations.

Aerospike has released version 4.8 with significant enhancements, including the ability to store record data in Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (PMEM), which offers unparalleled performance while retaining persistence and fast reboot capabilities. This feature allows for storing both indexes and data in PMEM, offering a balanced approach between performance and cost. Aerospike also introduced a Compressed Request/Response API Policy, enabling clients to control compression of transactional APIs, which can improve network bandwidth utilization and reduce costs associated with large data volumes. Additionally, the release extends support for strong consistency mode and durable writes, making it more suitable for real-time applications. The new version is optimized for block mode Flash storage, providing excellent performance even at petabyte scale.

Aerospike's modeling approach for IoT sensor data collection and retrieval can provide better performance than ScyllaDB, using less hardware. By collecting each day's data from one sensor into a single record with multiple data points in Aerospike, the database leverages its strengths to achieve higher performance. Compression features further compact the IoT data collected, reducing storage requirements and improving latency. The ability to efficiently retrieve specific data sets without scanning the entire dataset is another advantage of using Aerospike for IoT sensor data management.