aerospike
Noun
Meaning
Any of several forms of rocket engine having specialized nozzles.
A spike, protruding from the nose cone of a missile, designed to decrease supersonic drag.
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Aerospike is built to be extremely fast by for persistence and includes automatic scalability.
In doing this work, I independently validated their latest benchmark test results of up to 4 Million Transactions Per Second (TPS) on a single Aerospike cluster.
Other key technologies used to handle Big Data at speed are Hadoop, Scalding, Spark, Kafka, AeroSpike, Vertica, Cassandra, Avro, to name a few.
The host in the “-h” option of the benchmark tool must be used to test against the Aerospike host node.