Aerospike (company)

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Aerospike
TypePrivate
Industry NoSQL
Founded Mountain View California 2009
FounderBrian Bulkowski, Srini Srinivasan
Headquarters
Mountain View
,
U.S.
Key people
John Dillon (CEO), Srini Srinivasan, Jim LoDestro, Lenley Hensarling
Products Aerospike (database)
Number of employees
101-200 (2020)
Website aerospike.com

Aerospike is the company behind the Aerospike open source NoSQL distributed database management system. [1] [2] Citrusleaf, a Mountain View, California based company which rebranded to Aerospike in August 2012, announced the product in 2011. [3] [4] [5] The software is used by developers to deploy real-time big data applications. [5] [6]

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History

Citrusleaf was founded in 2009 by CTO Brian Bulkowski and vice president of engineering and operations Srini V. Srinivasan. [1] [3] [4] The company rebranded to Aerospike in 2012. [3] The database was initially[ when? ] used mainly in the advertising industry as a server-side cookie store, where read and write performance is paramount. [6] [7] It formed the core user data storage for adMarketplace and several other advertising companies including BlueKai, Tapad, The Trade Desk, Sony's So-net, and eXelate. Other customers include payment systems, gaming, cyber-security, and e-commerce industries. [7] [8] In 2012, the web site Wikibon promoted Aerospike for transactional analytic applications. [6] [7] It had automatic fail-over, replication, and cross data center synchronization. [7] [9] [10] [11]

In August 2012, Aerospike acquired the database AlchemyDB. [12] AlchemyDB, led by Russell Sullivan, is a hybrid RDBMS/NoSQL-datastore that has been optimized for memory efficiency. [3] [12] Aerospike made the acquisition with funding from New Enterprise Associates, Draper Associates, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, and Alsop Louie Partners. [8] [13]

In December 2012, online ad broker Tapad bought an Aerospike flash-based NoSQL database running on SSDs with indices held in RAM. [2] [5] The Aerospike database allowed Tapad the cost benefit of dealing with memory as a "single level store" by utilizing flash as a memory extension. [2]

In June 2014, Aerospike raised $20 million in a Series C round of funding. The company announced it had open sourced its technology. [14] [15] [16] The company also partnered with Adform, InMobi, and Vizury in 2014. [17] [18]

In February 2015, Aerospike named John Dillon, previously of Salesforce.com, as its CEO. [19] [20]

A round of $32 million of funding was announced on November 18, 2019, led by Triangle Peak Partners. [21]

Aerospike database

The Aerospike database management system is a key-value datastore, or distributed hash table, that delivers predictable, sub-millisecond query response times. [8] [12] It also has the ability to scale to very large sizes while maintaining high speeds. [8] [12] Its code is engineered to match the characteristics of flash memory, as opposed to more traditional methods. [22]

Aerospike uses row-based random access with indexes in memory and data in memory or on SSD (solid-state drive) storage. [7] [8] The database holds data that is accessible in real time. [7]

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