The essentials of a modern distributed database

Modern distributed databases are essential for businesses to handle real-time data demands from millions of consumers while maintaining high performance and availability. Key elements include horizontal scaling (scaling out) and vertical scaling (scaling up), strong consistency with high performance, and geo-distributed transactions. Aerospike's approach to distributed databases involves shared-nothing architecture, eliminating hotspots, uniform data partitioning, dynamic cluster management, Smart Client technology, Hybrid Memory Architecture (HMA), storage tiering, roster-based strong consistency, and support for both synchronous and asynchronous active-active systems. These strategies ensure efficient and effective handling of transactions across the globe while maintaining data integrity and system resilience.