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Welcome to Aerospike Database 7, and the initial server 7.0 release that sets the foundation for big developer API additions in server 7.1 and beyond. Server 7.0 also overhauls in-memory namespace in significant ways.

As the adoption of Kubernetes (K8s) continues to rise, the necessity for efficient management tools for software running on this platform also increases. For users of Aerospike on Kubernetes, this need is addressed by the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator Control (akoctl) tool. This command-line utility offers simplified and streamlined interactions with the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator, providing essential functions that ease the day-to-day operations of Aerospike clusters within a Kubernetes environment.

Like a well-prepared community bracing for the impact of a natural disaster, databases must be equipped to face unforeseen challenges. In the world of databases, few things are as dreaded as running out of memory, a situation referred to as OOM. Enter Aerospike's savior: the stop-writes condition, a protective measure designed to avert the nightmarish scenario of OOM. It acts as a vigilant sentinel, ensuring your database stays far from the brink of unrecoverable states. Think of it as your emergency go-bag or the life vest under your seat, offering respite when you need it most, though you hope never to use it.

In June of this year, Aerospike put graph developers front and center with the announcement of a new, developer-ready, real-time scalable graph database. Aerospike Graph is a massively scalable, high-performance graph database that simplifies building and deploying applications for highly connected enterprise-scale datasets.

Aerospike's configuration format can be difficult to learn and lacks the ecosystem of more standard configuration formats. Using the asconfig tool, new in Aerospike tools 8.3.0, you can write an Aerospike configuration in a standard YAML format with schema validation and IDE suggestions.

In this blog post, I’ll cover new features and changes in the generally available (GA) release of Aerospike 6.4.This release concludes our secondary index storage offerings with the introduction of secondary index on flash.

Aerospike is renowned as a very fast, very scalable database capable of storing billions or trillions of records, as well as being able to replicate the data to multipe remote database clusters. Hence, a common question which arises is: "How can I validate that two clusters are in sync?". This used to be a difficult problem, but new API calls in Aerospike v5.6 make this task substantially easier. In this blog we will look at one of these new API calls and use it to develop some code to show how a cluster comparator could be written.

Aerospike had the pleasure of hosting Theodore in a short internship for a school project exploring how companies work. He spent some time tinkering with the Aerospike database and documented his journey, which he shared with us. We in turn would like to share the work of this promising student, with his permission of course, with you. As this was Theodore's first time working with this technology stack, we've added a few [Editors notes] to help with some of the commands. So, without further ado, here's Theodore's report:

This blog explores the new Aerospike driver for LINQPad and its available features. Aerospike for LINQPad 7 is a data context dynamic driver for interactively querying and updating an Aerospike database using "LINQPad". LINQPad is a Graphical Development Tool designed for rapid prototyping, data modeling, data mining, drag-and-drop execution, interactive debugging/testing, quickly learn new frameworks/APIs (e.g., Aerospike API ), etc. The Aerospike driver for LINQPad is designed to support all LINQPad features.