Choosing the Right NoSQL Database: MongoDB vs. Aerospike for Enterprise Applications
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56830/IJSIE202403Keywords:
NoSQL advancements, , Hybrid database architectures, AI and ML integration, Real- time performance optimization, Enterprise scalabilityAbstract
The paper provides an in-depth analysis of the main differences between MongoDB and Aerospike as representatives of NoSQL database solutions in enterprise applications, focusing on their architectural differences, performance, and adaptability to various workloads. As a document-oriented database, MongoDB has schema flexibility, rich querying, good integration with analytics pipelines, and is well-suited to content management, e-commerce, and customer data platform use cases. Aerospike is a highperformance key-value store focusing on ultra-low latency, deterministic scalability, and throughput, with real-time analytics, financial services, advertising technology, and IoT among the use cases it excels at. The comparison analyzes data models, scaling mechanisms, consistency models, and benchmark performances, showing a comparison where MongoDB excels in complex queries and schema evolution flexibility, compared to Aerospike excelling with predictable sub-millisecond responses and high throughput operations functions. Applications in the industry and the purpose demonstrate the capabilities of each of these systems with MongoDB and its flexibility, and Aerospike and its stability in high-stakes tasks. Future work is then discussed in the form of NoSQL advances that include enhancements to distributed transactions, storage, predictive auto scaling, and implementing adequate security functions. The paper is also able to spot the prospects in hybrid constructions based on the use of both systems, further integration with AI, ML, and big data platforms, and the prospects of performance optimization, geodistributional fault tolerance, and energy-efficient systems. Findings conclude that data requirements dictate the use of databases: when flexibility, analytics binding, and schema flexibility are oriented towards MongoDB, and when latency, probing inner transactions, and Aerospike are better. This comparison can give enterprise architects and decisionmakers practical data in helping enterprises align database capabilities with operational and strategic goals.
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