I'm biased as the CTO and Founder of Aerospike, but we think it's a great database, and I hope you'll consider using it for new projects. It really works. It's been in use at huge scale within advertising networks, and now you can use it all you want.
As stated in the article, I did always have the strategy of open sourcing. I wanted to make sure the code base didn't lose focus, and we solved some of the hard problems in databases before we let it loose - we focused on customers and have been adding new features ( upcoming strong CP support as well as AP, security models, clients & connectors ).
Besides simply trying the database, I'd be interested in comments, either here or directly, on any question relating to the journey.
As Brian's partner in crime as co-founder and an old time DB hand, I do believe modern distributed databases have to not just support scale and performance but also attempt to provide the best ACID consistency possible in the presence of failures. Hopefully, database systems programmers will be interested in learning the details of how Aerospike works, benefit from this, and even help improve it.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 21.0 ms ] threadAs stated in the article, I did always have the strategy of open sourcing. I wanted to make sure the code base didn't lose focus, and we solved some of the hard problems in databases before we let it loose - we focused on customers and have been adding new features ( upcoming strong CP support as well as AP, security models, clients & connectors ).
Besides simply trying the database, I'd be interested in comments, either here or directly, on any question relating to the journey.