Aerospike Cloud Managed Service Reviews

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service provides fully managed or self-hosted options, and we work on fully managed only. It runs in our cloud environment and manages itself, which reduces our workload significantly. There are two options: self-hosted and SaaS. We rarely go with the self-hosted option; however, we do suggest self-hosted solutions to large media-centric firms like Yatra. Its main purpose is to function as a database with NoSQL capabilities, featuring very low latency, fast read and write speeds, and the ability for horizontal scaling, even at petabyte scale data. Automatic scaling and monitoring are excellent features, and it has stronger consistency in replication, making it fully managed so we don't have to worry much about maintenance.

A specific example of how my team uses Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is for real-time personalization, such as in a recommendation engine for Netflix-like systems. It stores all customer profiles and supports real-time bidding, processing millions of ad requests per second. Companies like Amazon Prime and Hotstar use it to process the same ad for millions of their users simultaneously. This is a great feature, and it also supports fraud detection in banking and payment systems for suspicious transaction processing instantly. Additionally, it replaces Redis in large-scale environments for handling user data sessions. There are many more use cases as well.

The best features Aerospike Cloud Managed Service offers, in my opinion, are its high-speed lookups at scale. It scales quickly and generally processes NoSQL data in real-time with low latency. We usually host it in AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud platforms, where it processes NoSQL data at high speed for various users.

The positive impact of Aerospike Cloud Managed Service on my organization is first evident in pricing. Earlier, we used Azure Cosmos DB, which had global distribution but was very costly. That's why we switched to Aerospike Cloud Managed Service.

After switching to Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, I have seen positive changes, including cost savings and the service being completely managed by the Aerospike team itself. We don't have to worry much about optimizations and configurations.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service can be improved in several ways. The learning curve is a challenge for beginners, especially compared to MongoDB or Redis, which are more user-friendly. Additionally, there is a smaller ecosystem with fewer tools and communities compared to MongoDB and Redis. While the managed service cost can be expensive for startups, large media enterprises may not feel the financial burden. Performance tuning is needed, as some areas still require faster processing for customers. We still receive complaints about the time it takes to load ads, and the query flexibility is limited, lacking a rich query language such as SQL or document databases.

The needed improvements for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service include transparent pricing tiers similar to MongoDB Atlas, better developer enterprise UI for simplicity, a larger ecosystem and integration, simplified onboarding tutorials, and native analytics with stronger SQL-like query layers.

I have been using Aerospike Cloud Managed Service for over four years in our project. We recommend to clients to use Aerospike Cloud Managed Service.

In my experience, Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is stable. We don't find any significant bugs; there is some latency in the UI, but it is not a significant concern.

The scalability of Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is quite good compared to others; I find it impressive.

The customer support for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is good, providing prompt help and responses.

We previously used Redis, but we switched to Aerospike Cloud Managed Service due to pricing constraints.

We did not purchase Aerospike Cloud Managed Service through the AWS Marketplace; we purchased it directly from their store.

I have seen a return on investment comparing Aerospike Cloud Managed Service with Redis. While it is more expensive than Redis, it is less costly compared to MongoDB, and it remains more stable than MongoDB.

My experience with Aerospike Cloud Managed Service's pricing, setup cost, and licensing indicates that it is quite expensive, but its functionality compensates for the cost. It is a higher burden for startups.

Before choosing Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, we evaluated other options such as MongoDB and Cassandra. MongoDB has flexible schema capabilities but is slower for higher throughputs with a significant amount of latency. Cassandra offers massive stability, but it is not optimized for real-time applications. Therefore, we found Aerospike Cloud Managed Service to be the only viable option.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service manages NoSQL as a real-time database, requiring high machine resources, and it is best suited for high-scale systems with low latency. I would rate Aerospike Cloud Managed Service a nine out of ten because if it had a larger ecosystem and integration with a more developer-friendly UI, I would have given it a perfect ten. The developers still need some time to understand it due to the learning curve.

Regarding Aerospike Cloud Managed Service's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security are solid. The vector search support, which enables AI models, is good and is useful in recommendation systems as well as for systematic search and retrieval of argumentative generation. It can integrate with Kafka, Spark pipelines, and ML pipelines, such as using vector similarity for e-commerce recommendations.

The accuracy and reliability of the output from Aerospike Cloud Managed Service's AI capabilities are quite good. While it can still be trained for better accuracy, initially, I cannot say it is very accurate, but over time it demonstrates good accuracy.

What I have mentioned covers everything about improvements needed for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, such as enhancing the community side, building a larger ecosystem, and making the UI simpler for developers to understand. My overall review rating for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is nine out of ten.

My main use case for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is to query quickly the device IDs that are stored in our big data in order to send text messages to the users.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service helps with managing those device IDs and sending out the messages by hosting all the data, the customer data, including the device IDs that we get from the SDKs. Based on their geography and their behavior, we need a quick way for users to set up a campaign, see their audience, and send broadcast messages of their choice to that audience. This is where Aerospike Cloud Managed Service comes in handy.

The response time is good, and the user cannot wait with traditional database response times. So far, everything is working well.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service has positively impacted my organization by enabling us to set up a campaign quickly and scale as needed, making a positive impact on our customers and the organization.

Since using Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, we have set up more campaigns than we used to do earlier, and I believe it is two to two and a half times bigger than what we used to do, though I do not have the exact numbers.

The best features of Aerospike Cloud Managed Service include not needing to manage the infrastructure on-premises. The life cycle and workflows are shorter now. There is integrated search and vector AI support. The pricing is predictable if you know your throughput. These are some of the plus points.

The integrated search and vector AI support feature of Aerospike Cloud Managed Service helps my team by enabling built-in capabilities including real-time features, semantic search using RAG pipelines, and different types of data structures including lists, JSONs, and others. These have helped in real-time query execution.

I think the ecosystem can be improved for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service. I appreciate your response regarding inbuilt support from other cloud providers to have this feature running. Additionally, community support, API behavior, and an expanded free tier would help as well.

I have been using Aerospike Cloud Managed Service for close to six years.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is stable.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service's scalability is that it adds servers based on the demand.

I think customer support is probably one of the improvement areas for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service; they can do better.

I would rate the customer support of Aerospike Cloud Managed Service a three.

I previously used a different solution which was based on traditional MongoDB databases, and it was not able to scale. Hence, we switched.

I have seen a return on investment; as I mentioned earlier, we are doing more campaigns than we used to do.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I think it is on par with the industry standards. It does not break the bank.

Before choosing Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, I evaluated other options including Microsoft Azure Database, Azure SQL Server, Redis Cloud, and DynamoDB.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate Aerospike Cloud Managed Service a seven.

I chose seven out of 10 because we have not developed or explored all the features for it, but for the features we have been using, we are definitely satisfied.

Regarding Aerospike Cloud Managed Service's AI capabilities, governance and security are always top of mind for me, being in a highly regulated industry when choosing any tool.

I think Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is reliable. Accuracy has not been load tested, but I would guess it is pretty decent.

My advice to others looking into using Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is that you should definitely try it out. It is a good solution based on your use case and other options that you have.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service serves as our main managed database service for internal workloads, handling over four billion queries per day.

We run telemetry data and prevalence data for all devices through Aerospike Cloud Managed Service. Our telemetry data and prevalence data for all devices are stored in the Aerospike database, and we fetch it to match and map unique devices.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service has impacted my organization positively due to its scalability and ease of deployment when moving from self-managed Aerospike database systems to a managed database.

Since moving to the managed service, efficiency has increased approximately 25% in terms of time saved, reduced errors, and overall team efficiency.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service offers valuable features including XDR, which allows us to replicate database clusters from one region or cluster to another, and rack-aware systems that provide resiliency through data storage.

XDR has specifically helped my team in terms of reliability and disaster recovery. We have approximately four to five regions apart from our primary region, and XDR has enabled us to provision resources in each region and reduce latency for users calling from those particular regions.

One potential improvement for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service would be addressing vendor lock-in.

I have been using Aerospike Cloud Managed Service for one year.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is stable.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service has good scalability as we were able to scale easier and faster.

Customer support for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is good as we fairly receive responses. I would rate customer support for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10.

We were using an Aerospike self-managed system before choosing Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, and we transitioned from self-managed to managed cloud.

I have seen a return on investment with Aerospike Cloud Managed Service. Time saved is significant, with at least 50% of the time being saved for setting up the cluster. Bringing up a new cluster is fairly easy with the managed service.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing Aerospike Cloud Managed Service.

I would rate Aerospike Cloud Managed Service an eight out of ten. I chose an eight because I have seen better alternatives as well.

Regarding Aerospike Cloud Managed Service's governance and security, I think they are good. Regarding the accuracy and reliability of output from Aerospike Cloud Managed Service's capabilities, I think it is mostly accurate.

My advice to others looking into using Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is that you can choose Aerospike if you want a managed service with low latency records.

My main use case for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is to keep the key values of my ad serving application where data latency is so critical.A quick, specific example of how Aerospike Cloud Managed Service helps with that day-to-day is that we are working on an ad serving platform where we had a lot of data that needed to be stored, and we have to retrieve it on demand as and when we are publishing or an ad is being clicked. We tried multiple things, but nothing could give us the speed of performance as Aerospike.Our application is very time-critical, and we need to make sure that the application should be able to get the information about the customer from our database as soon as possible. We tried multiple things, but Aerospike was the best to give us the least latency and the best performance.

The best features Aerospike Cloud Managed Service offers are mostly high availability and cloud flexibility because regardless of AWS and GCP, we can simply move to, we can configure Aerospike Cloud Managed Service on multi-cloud as well. Performance is the main thing, a very predictive performance, ultra-low latency at a huge scale.Aerospike Cloud Managed Service has impacted my organization positively because earlier, we were struggling to convert these ads within a limited time frame. But with Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, we are able to deliver ads more precisely and faster to the audience. So, it definitely increased the throughput, and our ad performance also increased after moving to Aerospike Cloud Managed Service.

One improvement I think Aerospike Cloud Managed Service could make is adding more customizations because we have less control on the underlying infrastructure. Having some more customization options would be helpful.

I have been using Aerospike Cloud Managed Service for almost three years.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is definitely stable in my experience.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service's scalability is highly scalable; being a managed service, we don't have to bother about scalability at all. It was heavily scalable depending upon our requirement.

I would add that their support was also awesome, as we had a dedicated account manager who helped us to fix issues as soon as possible.The customer support for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is good because they were available 24/7 across the globe.

Positive

I previously used a different solution; I think we were mostly in Redis at that time. We had to switch to Aerospike Cloud Managed Service because the latency was not as up to par.

I have definitely seen a return on investment because of time saved since earlier, when we were running these ads on other platforms, we definitely had a huge latency which impacted our ad performance. Almost 4x improvement happened when we moved to Aerospike Cloud Managed Service.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that pricing was decently priced, but there were a few things, some costs which are not immediately apparent, is what I remember. Otherwise, it was very clear pricing, and it was worth it.

Before choosing Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, I evaluated other options, such as Redis and Cassandra. Cassandra was out of the box earlier itself because of the maintenance of Cassandra. Redis is something we were sticking with because it was simple to manage and was almost par with what our requirement was, but the latency wasn't up to mark as Aerospike Cloud Managed Service. That's why we moved to Aerospike Cloud Managed Service.

My advice to others looking into using Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is that not all tools will be applicable for everyone. So do your homework properly and see how Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, how your scenario is being handled in multiple platforms. For us, we tried with multiple tools, and Aerospike Cloud Managed Service did give us the least latency. So if you're looking for something which is very critical on latency, Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is the best option to go. I would rate this review a 10.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is primarily used by organizations that need to store data and retrieve it quickly. We use it for storing time-series data that are typically generated on the fly. We deal with large volumes of data running into terabytes, and we want users to be able to access the data without any performance or latency issues.

This particular use case is for a financial services organization that has an application used to store all the trades that they undertake. As trades are being executed on the stock market, dealers must book deals, commit deals, make changes, make updates, and close those deals, which represents a significant volume of transactions. Aerospike helps us keep all of that data and we run it across multiple partitions on SSD storage.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service allows us to implement the CAP theorem, which encompasses consistency, availability, and partitioning. A strong point for us is ensuring that data is striped across multiple partitions because we do not want to lose any data. We also ensure that the data is readily available when we need it, and the data stays consistent. Aerospike has provided those capabilities effectively.

Additional capabilities include time-to-live index configurations that allow us to decide how long the data should stay and when the data should expire. The provision for horizontal scaling helps us build partitions that provide better and faster response times. Low latency is also a strong point that we have benefited from.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service has impacted our organization positively in many ways. It has helped us improve our observability and has improved our high availability. We are now very rack aware and very replication factor aware.

Queries that used to take approximately two to ten minutes to complete now take less than sixty seconds on Aerospike. We are now able to provide observability metrics, and we can meet those observability metrics with Aerospike because the response time is even lower than the provided metrics for observability. Aerospike has improved our performance significantly. Our performance metrics and observability metrics were quite high previously, but Aerospike has brought them down. Since we started using Aerospike, the metrics are substantially lower than what they were with previous databases.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service offers the ability to provide a faster response time. The response time for end users is fast, and we can use it for features such as fraud detection as well as real-time query analysis. The strong points that Aerospike brings are real-time or near-real-time query response as well as the ability to use it for fraud detection.

For fraud detection, we have built applications on top of Aerospike that communicate with Aerospike Cloud Managed Service. We have an application that logs in and at regular intervals checks Aerospike Cloud Managed Service to monitor activity and ensure that there are no unusual transactions doing anything out of the ordinary, and it reports them almost immediately. Unlike conventional databases where you write a query and have to wait for some time, Aerospike gives us a faster response time, allowing us to identify transactions much faster and move forward.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service should ensure that it can work across multiple cloud providers. Rather than deploying Aerospike to work only on a single cloud provider such as AWS, they should ensure that Aerospike can work across multi-cloud environments. In an ideal scenario, I could set up an Aerospike cluster with some nodes on Google Cloud, some nodes on AWS, some nodes on Microsoft Azure, and maybe some nodes running on Google Compute Cloud.

Another needed improvement would be to ensure that Aerospike can work across various software development kits, ranging from Python, Go, and Rust to other languages. The most important thing is not owning the database product, but ensuring that the database product can integrate with any platform and enable developers to build applications that work seamlessly with Aerospike. In the future, Aerospike might also consider building a native development platform that would enable Aerospike developers and users to build applications in real-time that integrate closely with Aerospike Cloud Managed Service.

I have been using Aerospike Cloud Managed Service for approximately two years.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is absolutely stable. My colleague and I are able to take vacations, and everything continues running without issues.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is very scalable and consistent. When we put data into Aerospike, we know that we do not lose data because it is always there. Horizontal scaling and high availability are the key benefits that it has given us, and I really value those benefits.

The customer support for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is excellent. The team is always available and responds to every issue when we reach out to them. In terms of a scale of one to ten, I would give them a ten in terms of support.

We previously used Oracle. It was quite a tedious process that required us to hire a team of over six persons. With Aerospike, there are just two team members, and we are able to manage and maintain the infrastructure effectively. Oracle was our major product before we transitioned to Aerospike.

The primary example of return on investment is the ease of use, which does not require us to have too many Aerospike administrators, which invariably becomes a cost saving. If you compare a relational database like Oracle, a team typically needs approximately five to six engineers. With Aerospike, there are just the two of us that went for the training, and we can manage the entire Aerospike infrastructure in the organization. Even when we are on vacation, one person can manage for the other, and the entire system continues to function. In terms of resources, we do not have a lot of personnel managing Aerospike, and we have never encountered a crisis.

I did not make the purchasing decision for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service; I simply use the tool. They deployed it on AWS.

If I had to get involved with that decision, I would say that Aerospike is pocket-friendly, and most organizations would be looking in that direction.

Before choosing Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, we evaluated other options, including MongoDB, Couchbase, and ClickHouse. We decided to go with Aerospike because it checked all the boxes in terms of ease of use and response time. Real-time query response time was really one of the things we were looking for, and Aerospike provided all of that.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Aerospike Cloud Managed Service a nine.

I chose nine because there is always room for improvement. Aerospike has a great product, but the need for them to constantly improve the product is why I scored them a nine. They have a great product, but they need to keep looking at the current trends in the developer community and user community, and keep improving to address those challenges. Before long, they will be a ten. Maybe in another twelve to eighteen months, if this survey is conducted again, I would score them a ten.

Regarding governance and security, I have not evaluated these areas extensively, but I think it is imperative that Aerospike ensures that they have great governance and security tooling on their database.

Regarding the output reliability, Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is reliable. It is a NoSQL database that uses key-value pairs, and the key-value pair system has always worked quite effectively. The usefulness for me is the fact that the response time is significantly faster than most relational databases because speed is a key and critical component for most organizations today. Speed to respond to customer requests and speed to respond to challenges are essential. Speed and response are key things that every database vendor needs to focus on, and I think Aerospike is taking a great step in this direction.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is deployed in our organization using a public cloud on AWS and we also have some deployments on Azure. We use AWS mostly with Aerospike Cloud Managed Service.

If you want to deploy a NoSQL database for a use case that gives you the ability to quickly test and deploy data and applications, Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is worth considering. It runs off the cloud, is quick and easy to deploy, and it is also easy to manage as the data starts to grow.

At the time I was working in the travel industry, we needed efficient search capabilities. We needed to find inventory from our database, which was kept in two distributed systems: SQL and Aerospike. 

To achieve fast reads, we stored all the inventory data in Aerospike, which significantly improved our performance in terms of read-write operations. In SQL, saving and fetching takes time, and our clients often commented on performance. However, introducing Aerospike enhanced our read and write speeds immensely. 

Aerospike is a NoSQL database, allowing us to store extensive data and perform read and write operations rapidly, resolving our inventory-related performance issues.

Regarding features, a couple of things stand out for me. First is definitely the read and write capabilities, which were amazing. On the storage side, another notable feature is the distributed management. 

Also, saving data into Aerospike in a NoSQL format is beneficial. It's not exactly buffer data; it's like free text, allowing us to create key-value pairs and fetch data using keys. This was another good feature.

Enhancing performance would be beneficial. While it is already fast, the industry is continuously moving towards even faster solutions, and performance issues can become apparent. They can certainly focus on performance improvements, as the current performance is like a 100 to 1, which could be optimized further.

I have been using the solution for more than four years.

I have not encountered any major issues; I think I can say ninety-nine percent of the time, they provide good performance. I didn't find anything major, like system downtime or similar issues.

Scalability is also good. Generally, we deployed Aerospike on three different servers. This setup ensures proper scalability. If one server is handling requests, other servers are free to process their own tasks, ensuring seamless operation. From a scalability perspective, I can say they manage it well.

I contacted them twice during my entire experience, and they responded well. I clearly remember an issue with searching that I faced. They not only replied via email but also assisted greatly over a call. The support system is very good.

Neutral

I will rate it eight out of ten. Definitely eight. 

It depends on the users and their needs. In our system, we needed inventory-related functionalities, and Aerospike fulfilled our requirements. If your needs are similar, Aerospike will meet them. It is important to understand your needs first, then decide whether Aerospike is suitable.

I typically use Aerospike Cloud Managed Service for user session management, fraud detection pipelines, and real-time data processing in our apps.

The main use case revolves around real-time data tracking and processes. Anything that demands fast, consistent performance across large volumes of data is where Aerospike Cloud Managed Service fits perfectly for our use cases.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service has been really helpful for us because the managed service makes it ideal for teams that need real-time speed, but don't want to deal with cluster operations.

As a manufacturing company, we do have some technical expertise, but most of our people are newer to this field.

The managed service has positively impacted our organization by enabling us to ensure that the performance, scalability, and reliability of the cluster and infrastructure remains maintenance burden-free.

I've seen specific outcomes from Aerospike Cloud Managed Service that show how it has helped our team, including a reduction in time consumed.

It has definitely helped us reduce our time by almost twenty percent per person because otherwise, the developers, especially the newer developers, would need to learn everything and perform their actions independently.

I've seen relevant ROI with Aerospike Cloud Managed Service in terms of effort saved, since people now need to spend lesser time focusing on how they need to manage the cluster and the resources.

Since our company is evolving towards IT and not all people are very technical, Aerospike Cloud Managed Service has made everyone's life easier and reduced the efforts involved in the learning curve.

It has helped us save around twenty percent of our time.

The best features Aerospike Cloud Managed Service offers are good zero downtime during scaling.

We can add capacity without affecting production.

The fully managed operations are a big plus since it allows us automated patching, monitoring, and backup, making life much easier.

It's probably the fully managed automated patching and monitoring that I find myself relying on the most day-to-day because it has been really helpful for us in our daily tasks, not only for us but even for the implementation we do for our entire team.

Even under massive loads and workloads, the latency stays consistently low at sub-millisecond levels.

Overall, I think Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is quite good, but I believe the UI console is functional and could be made better.

It's a bit technical to use, especially for some of the people in our organization who are not very technical, and since our company is evolving and moving towards the IT side, that can be improved to be easier to use.

The managed service model takes away all the operational burden, and from a UI perspective, some functionalities could be made more intuitive.

I've been using Aerospike Cloud Managed Service for three years, and this has been great.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is stable.

Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is quite scalable as well.

I never needed to reach out to customer support.

Negative

We didn't use any other solution before; we were just using cloud-native solutions only.

I'm not sure about the pricing, setup cost, and licensing because that is handled by our finance or other teams.

I was involved in the initial calls and I think it was overall quite good; the pricing and all were quite competitive.

I think we did purchase Aerospike Cloud Managed Service through the AWS Marketplace, but I'm not sure about that part.

I've seen relevant ROI with Aerospike Cloud Managed Service in terms of effort saved, since people now need to spend lesser time focusing on how they need to manage the cluster and the resources.

Since our company is evolving towards IT and not all people are very technical, Aerospike Cloud Managed Service has made everyone's life easier and reduced the efforts involved in the learning curve.

It has helped us save around twenty percent of our time.

I'm not sure about the pricing, setup cost, and licensing because that is handled by our finance or other teams.

I was involved in the initial calls and I think it was overall quite good; the pricing and all were quite competitive.

We evaluated MongoDB Atlas before choosing Aerospike Cloud Managed Service, but it offered flexibility but didn't have the delivery consistency at this scale.

It didn't provide the sub-millisecond response whenever the scale of data was increased, in large-scale data.

I think Aerospike Cloud Managed Service was a really good option to go with.

I would say overall, people should go for Aerospike Cloud Managed Service as it's a fast, reliable, and stable service, which is perfect for real-time, high-throughput workloads.

The managed service model takes away all the operational burden, and performance has been rock solid since day one since we implemented it in our environments.

I give Aerospike Cloud Managed Service a rating of nine.