[1][2] Citrusleaf, a Mountain View, California based company which rebranded to Aerospike in August 2012, announced the product in 2011.

[5][6] Citrusleaf was founded in 2009 by Gian-Paolo Musumeci, CTO Brian Bulkowski, and vice president of engineering and operations Srini V.

[6][7] It formed the core user data storage for adMarketplace and several other advertising companies including BlueKai, Tapad, The Trade Desk, Sony's So-net, and eXelate.

[8][13] In December 2012, online ad broker Tapad bought an Aerospike flash-based NoSQL database running on SSDs with indices held in RAM.

[21] The Aerospike database management system is a key-value datastore, or distributed hash table, that delivers predictable, sub-millisecond query response times.