Record Aggregation in Aerospike For Performance and Economy

Aerospike, a key-value database, offers DRAM economy by maintaining a constant 64 byte footprint for every object regardless of its actual size. This allows efficient management of large numbers of objects with limited memory resources. However, challenges arise when dealing with small objects or specific cloud environments where memory to disk ratios are fixed. Techniques like "blocking" and Aerospike's comprehensive List and Map API can help manage these situations efficiently. By storing multiple smaller objects within larger ones, the memory footprint can be reduced significantly. Bit-masking is used to map from a logical object key to a physical container object key, allowing efficient retrieval of data without transmitting entire physical objects across the network. This approach not only reduces memory usage but also optimizes network capacity utilization, contributing to overall performance and economy in Aerospike's database operations.