We are planning to use Aerospike as a fast persistent data store (not as in memory store ) in a data collection application . the other candidate technology is Cassandra… Would be great if any one can point out the following
The benchmark against cassandra as a persistant datastore
How to configure Aerospike in a virtual environment inside an Enterprise network
Your second question is a bit broad to answer generically as there are too many factors to consider. We would need much more information to be able to assist you.