Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several forms of rocket engine having specialized nozzles. 2 A spike, protruding from the nose cone of a missile, designed to decrease supersonic drag.
Wikipedia
Aerospike may refer to:
- Aerospike engine, a rocket engine without a traditional rocket nozzle
- Drag-reducing aerospike, a device which reduces drag on missiles by creating a detached shock above the missile
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Aerospike (company), a technology company based in Mountain View, California, US
- Aerospike database, a noSQL database
Aerospike is the company behind the Aerospike open source NoSQL distributed database which has a horizontally scalable high-speed lightweight data layer. Citrusleaf, a Mountain View, California based company which rebranded to Aerospike in August 2012, launched the database in 2011. The company purpose-built the database for developers to deploy real-time big data applications.
According to a study by Wikibon in 2012, Aerospike is the leading data-in-flash database for transactional analytic applications, and it can answer over 200 thousand transactions per second per node. Additionally, with automatic fail-over, replication, and cross data center synchronization, the Aerospike database can store terabytes of data.
The database is primarily used in advertising as a server-side cookie store, where read and write performance is paramount. It forms the core user data storage for adMarketplace and several other advertising companies including BlueKai, Tapad, The Trade Desk, Sony's So-net, and eXelate. The database is also used in gaming, security, and e-commerce industries.
Usage examples of "aerospike".
Center screen were the long, pinched shapes of the six linear aerospike rocket engines that stretched across the ship's wide tail.
They use densified fuel (you keep chilling the hydrogen and oxygen until they become slushy), aerospike engines (a ring of them around a cone, and you fake the cone), spindly little legs used for landing only, no wings, a seleciion of peaceheads for cargo or fuel or passengers.
Robard leaned back in his seat as the rotor tip aerospikes quietened their screeching roar, and the pilot fed the remaining power into the collective pitch, trading airspeed against altitude.
There was real passion in him—you heard it when he spoke of aerospikes and dynamic tests.