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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.
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.
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.