As businesses evolve, their database needs to become more sophisticated, demanding higher performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency. While MongoDB has been a cornerstone in the NoSQL database ecosystem, Aerospike is emerging as a preferred alternative for organizations with specific high-performance and real-time use cases. This article dives into the technical reasons driving this shift and examines why Aerospike is gaining traction as the database of choice for modern enterprises.

Architecture Differences

MongoDB

MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database that stores data in BSON (Binary JSON) format. It relies heavily on a primary-secondary replication model for high availability and uses memory-mapped files for storage. While this architecture works well for general-purpose workloads, it can struggle with scaling and performance under heavy transactional loads or real-time data requirements.