CTO at Aerospike here. Aerospike is battle-tested in large deployments --- ad-tech, marketing-tech, a few new ones in telecom and fin-serv. Pushing huge load w

CTO at Aerospike here. Aerospike is battle-tested in large deployments --- ad-tech, marketing-tech, a few new ones in telecom and fin-serv. Pushing huge load with very, very little downtime. That's what we're the most proud of --- and I'm proud that we're able to offer this killer codebase as open source, after being closed source for the first few years of the company. Most applications have a huge core of key-value --- twitter, for example --- and need a fast and scalable key-value component. You can start with a single server (on your laptop with Vagrant) and scale up later. We're adding more types, more cool operations, more indexes this year. The fact that Aerospike has a basic query system, type safety, flash optimization (Amazon has switched over to being very SSD/Flash centric) support for every language under the sun (three contributed Scala layers --- and we see a lot of Go use as well as the usual Java / Node / Python / PHP / HHVM), Hadoop integration....