Aerospike Database
7.8#1 in key-value databasesFree planFree planWebAPILinuxmacOS
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TiDB Cloud
8.1#1 in distributed systemsFree planFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
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| Fact | Aerospike Database | TiDB Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Company profile | LinkedIn lists Aerospike as a privately held software-development company headquartered in Mountain View, California, founded in 2009 with 201–500 employees. | LinkedIn lists TiDB powered by PingCAP as privately held, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with 501–1,000 employees. |
| Founded | 2010 | 2015 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | Aerospike Connect includes connectors for Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, JMS, Pulsar, Trino, and Event Stream Processing, with additional licensing noted for these connectors. | Official integrations include Kubernetes via TiDB Operator, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Kafka, Flink, Confluent, Airbyte, Amazon AppFlow and dbt. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.4 out of 5 from 83 reviews | 4.6 out of 5 from 66 reviews |
| Rating on Gartner Peer Insights | 4.8 out of 5 from 76 reviews | 4.9 out of 5 from 165 ratings |
| Security | Enterprise Edition lists TLS transport encryption, access control lists, Vault integration, and FIPS 140-2 compliance; some security features require additional licensing. | TiDB Cloud supports email and password login, standard SSO, organization SSO, private endpoints, public endpoints, and console audit logging across all four listed plans. |
| Security controls | Aerospike states that it encrypts data in transit with TLS 1.2 or newer and at rest with AES-128 or equivalent, and uses RBAC, MFA, SIEM monitoring and encrypted backups. | Security features include SSO, MFA, fine-grained IAM, private endpoints, VPC peering, IP access lists, TLS, CMEK options and console/database audit logs. |
Aerospike Database plans
- Community EditionFree
- Enterprise EditionPriced on request
TiDB Cloud plans
- TiDB Cloud Essential—
- TiDB Cloud Premium$1,800 a month
- TiDB Cloud Dedicated$0.22 a month
- TiDB Cloud StarterFree
- StarterFree
- Essential$400 a month
Pick Aerospike Database if…
It may suit teams building large-scale transaction systems or data pipelines that need multiple data models and replication options. The Enterprise Edition is described for mission-critical workloads, including machine learning and generative and agentic AI workloads.
Pick TiDB Cloud if…
TiDB Cloud may suit teams needing a managed MySQL-compatible database for transactional and analytical workloads. Starter's free quota and scale-to-zero compute may interest organizations evaluating the service or running workloads with idle periods.