Aerospike's recent benchmark, conducted in collaboration with AWS and Intel, demonstrates its Real-time Data Platform's ability to handle petabyte-scale workloads efficiently on just a 20-node AWS cluster, achieving 4 to 5 million transactions per second (TPS) with sub-millisecond latencies. This performance showcases Aerospike's architectural optimizations, such as the use of modern hardware and multi-threaded architecture, which allow it to offer significant cost savings compared to alternatives like Apache Cassandra. The benchmark involved complex workloads typical in industries like Ad Tech and financial services, underscoring Aerospike's capability to manage extreme application requirements with high scalability and operational ease. The results reveal a dramatically lower total cost of ownership (TCO) over three years compared to competing solutions, highlighting Aerospike's ability to cut infrastructure expenses by millions of dollars. The benchmark reflects the real-world successes of Aerospike's global customers, who have switched from other solutions to meet their growing data demands efficiently.