Aerospike

Developed by Aerospike, Inc., which gives an address in Mountain View, California, Aerospike is a distributed NoSQL database for mission-critical transactional work in real time. It suits applications that have to act on data immediately, for example in advertising technology and fraud detection, and the company now describes it as the real-time database for AI.

Hybrid memory design

Aerospike keeps its index in memory and the data on SSD storage. The company calls this its patented Hybrid Memory Architecture and says it delivers memory-like latency with the durability and lower cost of SSDs.

Editions and licensing

Community Edition carries the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, which is open source. It costs nothing but caps a cluster at eight nodes and 2.5 TB of data. Enterprise Edition needs a commercial licence and handles as many as 256 nodes with unlimited data. For Enterprise pricing, buyers are told to get in touch, and cloud-managed options are also offered, including Aerospike Cloud.

Tools and releases

Aerospike promotes Voyager, a free preview workspace for Mac, Windows and Linux in which users can run queries, troubleshoot and chart their data. Release 8.1.2.5, dated 17 September 2026, is the latest tagged one.

Planning for growth

Anyone expecting to outgrow the Community Edition limits should plan on Enterprise Edition from day one and ask for a quotation, since the node and data limits shape both the design and the cost.