I built a test environment here. I used Ubuntu 14.4 with the latest version of Aerospike for Ubuntu. The insert went fine, and the query was successful and correct.
I’m curious about when you saw the failure. Was it immediately after you started the node? If you waited a minute or two, does the issue persist?
I know that you said that you had just started using Aerospike, but is there a chance that you have a cluster with two or more nodes, and that the cluster contains data? The reason that I ask is that I wonder if the issue occurred while migrations were in progress?
I had the same problem as you with a big set. If I tried the “select *” directly from al command line it failed in timeout.
just try to increase the timeout by calling your select from the shell command line :
$ aql -T 3000 -c “select * from .”