Aerospike has announced the availability of Aerospike Connect for Kafka and Spark, as well as an Aerospike REST Client. These add-ons eliminate the need for custom coding to integrate the Aerospike database with other enterprise systems, reducing support, maintenance, and server costs. The new integrations allow enterprises to leverage real-time data stored in Aerospike using popular big data frameworks like Apache Spark and Kafka, improving the quality and timeliness of results in machine learning applications.