October 2022 Summaries

AWS re:Invent 2022 will feature Aerospike as a Platinum sponsor with an expo booth at the Data and Analytics Neighborhood, highlighting new announcements and partner ecosystems. The event will showcase six members of the Aerospike Partner ecosystem, including Ably, Aqfer, Intuita, MOLO17, Starburst, and StreamNative. These partners implement or build on the Aerospike real-time data platform to help customers accelerate their digital transformation for sustainable business value at scale. The event will also emphasize the Aerospike AWS Partnership, which delivers industry-leading price performance at unlimited scale. Online registration is available for those unable to attend in person.

This post aims to help readers deploy an Aerospike database in a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically focusing on steps one, two, and three of the plan. The author, Plushcap, is part of the Aerospike Developer Relations team but has limited experience with real-world deployments. He wants to guide readers through his own journey, sharing mistakes and lessons learned along the way. The post covers creating a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on AWS, deploying an EKS cluster, setting up IAM roles for the cluster, and installing the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator using OLM or Helm. The author also discusses common issues encountered during setup, such as missing flags in the OLM installation process and storage requirements. Throughout the post, Plushcap emphasizes the importance of learning eksctl and the AWS CLI to simplify setup processes. He invites readers to join him on this journey, sharing his experiences and insights, and promises to cover data modeling, storing, and accessing data in future posts.

In a recent webinar with DBTA, experts discussed the importance of leveraging real-time document databases for large-scale applications. They highlighted trends such as supporting real-time applications and insights, focus on self-service platforms, need to support all kinds of data, demand for more elastically scalable platform, increasing demand for more connected data, and leveraging the cloud for new apps and insights. Document databases provide a flexible data model that supports documents efficiently, delivering high performance on reads and writes for documents, which is especially important when dealing with large volumes of data. Aerospike's focus on scale and low latency was discussed through customer examples such as AppNexus and The Trade Desk. Zonetap also faced scalability issues with MongoDB but found a solution in Aerospike's document database capabilities, JSON Document API, and high throughput capabilities.

The text discusses the use of AWS Graviton for building real-time applications. It highlights Aerospike's capabilities as a multi-model, NoSQL real-time data platform suitable for multi-cloud large-scale JSON and SQL use cases. The session at AWS re:Invent will cover topics such as unlimited scale, low latency, global resilient services, and sustainability. Fidelity Investments and Wix.com are mentioned as companies that have successfully utilized Aerospike on AWS for real-time applications. The text also provides information about the upcoming session at re:Invent and how to attend it virtually.

Aerospike is a multi-model, NoSQL real-time data platform designed for multi-cloud, large-scale JSON and SQL use cases, providing predictable performance at any scale and the lowest latency with industry-leading uptime, requiring up to 80% less infrastructure compared to traditional systems. Aerospike's capabilities include unlimited scale, low latency, global resilient services, and sustainability, making it an ideal choice for building real-time applications on AWS Graviton. Fidelity Investments and Wix.com will share their experiences of using Aerospike to leverage advanced analytics, real-time decision support, and digital capabilities, showcasing its benefits in improving performance and reducing carbon footprint. The platform allows developers to build real-time apps in minutes, making it a natural fit for real-time application design on AWS.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) have launched ESGenome, a portal for companies to report Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data accessible by investors. DBS Bank has also announced decarbonization targets and features to predict consumers' carbon footprint. Singapore is leading in Green Fintech and ESG Finance, with assets estimated to hit US$53 trillion by 2025. MAS's Project Greenprint aims to develop digital platforms for better ESG data using Blockchain, IoT, and APIs. Technology plays a crucial role in reducing businesses' carbon footprints and enabling smarter platforms like digital banking, e-commerce apps, and online brokerage services. Aerospike has developed a unique Hybrid Memory Architecture that reduces infrastructure requirements by up to 80-90% compared to other in-memory databases or caching technologies, leading to significant reductions in costs and carbon emissions. This smarter choice of database technology can help businesses achieve better ESG data and access competitive financing options.

The Aerospike Kubernetes Operator abstracts away the complexity of configuring a high-performance distributed database, making it easy to instantiate an Aerospike database in a Kubernetes cluster. However, ensuring that storage is fully deleted and other redundant resources are removed after terminating a database cluster is crucial to avoid unwelcome AWS charges. The article reviews how to create a simple AWS EKS cluster, install the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator, and manage Aerospike database clusters, including creating and deleting storage volumes and claims. It also highlights the importance of cleaning up resources properly, as leaving persistent volumes associated with Aerospike undeleted can result in large, unwelcome AWS bills.

Aerospike is a Platinum sponsor at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this year. The company has planned various activities for the event, including a breakout session on building real-time applications using Aerospike on AWS Graviton, featuring customers Fidelity Investments and Wix.com. Additionally, attendees can visit Aerospike's booth to learn about their multi-model real-time data platform and performance results from testing on Graviton-based instances. The company will also feature partner solutions and services at the event. For those unable to attend in person, a virtual pass is available for live keynotes and leadership sessions, as well as an on-demand breakout session featuring Aerospike CEO Subbu Iyer.

Aerospike's query and indexing capabilities play a crucial role in achieving its speed-at-scale objective. Queries are processed using one of three indexes: primary, set, or secondary indexes. Primary indexes are system-defined and cannot be removed or changed once created. Set indexes can improve performance for certain queries, while secondary indexes offer mapping from values to records and support indexing on custom values. Secondary indexes have limitations, such as not supporting uniqueness or order constraints. Pagination allows developers to retrieve results in smaller chunks, while parallel query processing enables distributed querying across partitions for improved throughput. Additionally, Aerospike supports read and write operations using indexes, with background updates providing an efficient way to update large numbers of records without blocking the application thread.