Is Aerospike commercial?

With VMs, you will have to use “file” device for persistence. Don’t think you can do SSD raw block storage which is what Aerospike gives best “hybrid memory” performance with. Also, you can run multiple Aerospike processes on the same VM and form a cluster as long as you separate out the ports in the config file - just for testing. 300x on first, 600x on next, 900x on third etc. (See Aerospike Command Line Options and run multiple asd’s with different config files from command line. ) So for getting started … you can do all this, don’t try to infer performance numbers though!