Cassandra Reviews & Product Details

It's a highly scalable database management system. The most beneficial thing about cassandra is its strong consistency across its nodes. And there is no single point of failure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Learning curve is steep when you dig into the internals of cassandra on how it handles compaction and availablity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cassandra is a good choice for wide-column database. It's well documented, stable, with great compatibility with many apps , framework and repositories. And it has proven to be a very stable and good database engine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Compared to scylla, maybe there are some downside on performance. But, there is also a tradeoff in which cassandra is more well established and commonly used resulting in better compatibilities and community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scalable Database

Open Source

Wide Community Support

Blazing Fast Speeds

The goodness of SQL with Enhanced CQL

Can store huge amount of data

Denormalization of the data gets rid of the painful joins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A slight curve of learning if moving from RDBMS, preciseness in defining the primary keys or specifically clustering and partitioning keys, No support for views except for experimental materialized views Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cassandra is good to handle configurations related data, management data. User data. data which keep changing, we can use cassandra.

Casaandra supports high availability also, replication etc., Cassandra is easy to learn as its based on sql structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is read-heavy, we need to create new tables for each need. Modifying a table is costly. Consumes more storage for the same information if we store in any other databases.

Schema is very strict, it is very difficult to change the schema. we have to go with creating new tables everytime we wanty to change schema. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database to manage a larger amount of data and the best possibilities for easy handling of data in unstructured form. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Cassandra DB is not maintained SQL data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Architecture and replication which helps to achieve high HA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amount of space occupied by the tables is huge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scales nicely for writes, CQL is easy to pickup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Poor performance (suffering from JVM usage), needs a large node count to handle writes (it does not fit well with fewer nodes using larger machines). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the NoSQL feature in cassandra which is easy to understand from rdbms point of view as well. It is flexible and scalable as well. The high availability works very well in cassandra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is less performance tuning tool inbuilt in Cassandra which is making difficult to tune the database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have used is as a write fast solution and its working really great we are managing around 300 gb of data daily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing as such, everything looks fine and working as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easily portable on various systems. The cass-one mechanism makes it a good benchmarking tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You cannot really fetch data sent in message packets if you want to tweak with the communication complexity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.