Clairvoyance VS quix

There are a few open-source data browsers such as Clairvoyance that can help you view data stored in Aerospike however, but none of them are feature-complete or actively maintained.

Aerospike Data Browser is basically a stack that consists of Quix, Presto, and the Aerospike Connector for Presto, and is dockerized. Figure 1 depicts an under the hood view. The Quix UI provides a DB Explorer and a SQL editor, in addition to a notebook manager for managing your notebooks. Presto exposes a JDBC interface to Quix and uses the Aerospike Connector to translate SQL queries into API calls to the DB. Building a stack with the aforementioned components for a desktop installation is not trivial by any means. Presto can scale to 100’s of nodes for a large scale deployment, but we wanted to limit the data browser to a single Presto instance that would run both the coordinator and worker in the developer's desktop environment. Our initial size of the Presto docker image was over 2GB, which was not acceptable. Hence, we stripped out all but the Aerospike connector from the plugin directory. Similarly, we had to downsize the Quix connector. Finally, we got the compressed docker image size under 1GB. We also made a design decision to default to schema inference so that a user that does not know the schema apriori is not left out.