Inside Aerospike 8.0: The evolution to a fully transactional database

The Aerospike 8.0 release introduces native multi-record transactions, expanding beyond single-record operations without sacrificing low latency and high throughput. In this video, Aerospike’s CTO and Founder – Srini Srinivasan, Engineer, Vice President – Andrew Gooding, and Director of Product Management – Ronen Botzer share the technical details behind this release, including how the familiar start-commit-abort transactional model was implemented and optimized for performance.

This overview explores the main obstacles that arise from integrating transactions into a high-performance, distributed database and how Aerospike 8.0 ensures minimal overhead while supporting ACID properties. Learn how these updates simplify application development, reduce the need for custom transaction managers, and integrate seamlessly with existing Aerospike language clients like Java, C, and Python. For developers using Spring Data, the latest 5.0.0 release includes full support for Aerospike transactions, making integration even easier.

If you're working with real-time, mission-critical workloads and need a scalable, consistent database, this video provides a detailed look at what Aerospike 8.0 offers and how it fits into modern data architectures.