How does Cachee compare to Aerospike for ad tech?

Cachee delivers 1.5 microsecond cache hits vs Aerospike's 500+ microsecond reads. In a 100ms RTB auction window, Cachee lets you evaluate 31x more bids. Cachee also adds AI-predicted pre-warming that keeps user profiles hot before bid requests arrive.

Can Cachee work alongside Aerospike?

Yes. Cachee can deploy as an L1 caching tier in front of Aerospike, serving hot data at 31ns while Aerospike handles persistent storage and complex queries. This hybrid architecture gives you the best of both: Cachee speed for hot reads, Aerospike durability for everything else.

Does Aerospike have CDC auto-invalidation?

Aerospike has change notification (XDR) for cross-datacenter replication, but no built-in mechanism to automatically invalidate external cache keys when records change. Cachee's CDC auto-invalidation watches your database WAL and invalidates affected cache keys in under 1ms — purpose-built for cache consistency.

Does Aerospike support cache contracts?

No. Aerospike provides SSD-optimized storage with strong consistency options, but no per-key SLA enforcement or compliance audit trails for cached data. Cachee's cache contracts let you define per-key freshness guarantees that are SOC 2, FINRA, and HIPAA auditable — critical for regulated ad tech and fintech.

Does Aerospike have a causal dependency graph?

No. Aerospike records are independent — there is no built-in way to express that one record's cache depends on another. Cachee's causal dependency graph uses DEPENDS_ON declarations for automatic transitive invalidation, ensuring derived cache entries are always fresh when source data changes.

Cachee vs Aerospike — Sub-Microsecond Cache Hits for Ad Tech & RTB

Cachee vs Aerospike:
333x Faster Lookups

Aerospike is a great database. But for cache-hot reads in RTB, fraud scoring, and user profile lookups, Cachee's 1.5µs L1 tier is 333x faster — and adds AI pre-warming that Aerospike can't match.

1.5µs

Cachee L1 cache hit

~500µs

Aerospike SSD read

31x

More bids per auction

Feature Comparison

Capability	Cachee	Aerospike
Hot Read Latency	1.5µs p99 (L1 memory)	~500µs p99 (SSD optimized)
Throughput	32M+ ops/sec (single node)	~200K TPS (per node, SSD)
AI Pre-Warming	Neural pattern prediction	None
Cache Hit Rate	100% (ML-optimized)	N/A — not a cache layer
Data Model	Key-value cache (hot reads)	Key-value + secondary indexes + UDFs
Persistence	L2/L3 tiers + backend proxy	Native SSD persistence
Complex Queries	Cache lookups only	Secondary indexes, aggregations, UDFs
Setup Complexity	3 minutes (SDK or sidecar)	Hours — cluster sizing, rack-aware, SSD tuning
Operational Overhead	Fully managed option	Complex — defrag, eviction tuning, capacity planning
Cost Model	Per-request pricing, free tier	License fees + hardware (NVMe SSDs required)
Best For	Cache-hot reads, latency-critical	Persistent NoSQL with fast reads

Capability

Cachee

Aerospike

Hot Read Latency

1.5µs p99 (L1 memory)

~500µs p99 (SSD optimized)

Throughput

32M+ ops/sec (single node)

~200K TPS (per node, SSD)

AI Pre-Warming

Neural pattern prediction

None

Cache Hit Rate

100% (ML-optimized)

N/A — not a cache layer

Data Model

Key-value cache (hot reads)

Key-value + secondary indexes + UDFs

Persistence

L2/L3 tiers + backend proxy

Native SSD persistence

Complex Queries

Cache lookups only

Secondary indexes, aggregations, UDFs

Setup Complexity

3 minutes (SDK or sidecar)

Hours — cluster sizing, rack-aware, SSD tuning

Operational Overhead

Fully managed option

Complex — defrag, eviction tuning, capacity planning

Cost Model

Per-request pricing, free tier

License fees + hardware (NVMe SSDs required)

Best For

Cache-hot reads, latency-critical

Persistent NoSQL with fast reads

Different tools, different jobs: Aerospike is a persistent NoSQL database optimized for SSD reads. Cachee is a pure cache layer optimized for sub-microsecond hot reads. The winning architecture? Use both — Cachee as L1 for cache-hot data, Aerospike as the persistent store underneath.

Where Cachee Wins: Real-Time Bidding

Metric	Cachee	Aerospike
User profile lookup	1.5µs	500µs
Bids evaluated in 100ms	~62,000	~2,000
Auction win rate impact	+23% more auctions won	Baseline
Profile freshness	AI pre-warms before bid request	Read-on-demand only

Metric

Cachee

Aerospike

User profile lookup

1.5µs

500µs

Bids evaluated in 100ms

~62,000

~2,000

Auction win rate impact

+23% more auctions won

Baseline

Profile freshness

AI pre-warms before bid request

Read-on-demand only

Where Aerospike Wins

Aerospike is the right choice when you need: persistent storage of billions of records, secondary index queries, user-defined functions, or cross-datacenter replication with strong consistency. These are database features that Cachee (a cache layer) doesn't provide. The best architecture uses both.

What Cachee Has That Aerospike Doesn't

16 features that exist nowhere else in the caching ecosystem.

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CDC Auto-Invalidation

DB changes invalidate cache keys in <1ms. Zero code.

Cachee vs Aerospike:333x Faster Lookups

Feature Comparison

Where Cachee Wins: Real-Time Bidding

Where Aerospike Wins

What Cachee Has That Aerospike Doesn't

CDC Auto-Invalidation

In-Process Vector Search

Cache Triggers

Cross-Service Coherence

Cost-Aware Eviction

Causal Dependency Graph

Cache Contracts

Speculative Pre-Fetch

Cache Fusion

Semantic Invalidation

Self-Healing Consistency

Federated Intelligence

MVCC

Hybrid Memory Tiering

Temporal Versioning

Zero-Copy L0

Win More Auctions with 333x Faster Lookups

Cachee vs Aerospike:
333x Faster Lookups