Likelihood to Recommend Apache Cassandra is a NoSQL database and well suited where you need highly available, linearly scalable, tunable consistency and high performance across varying workloads. It has worked well for our use cases, and I shared my experiences to use it effectively at the last Cassandra summit!
http://bit.ly/1Ok56TK It is a NoSQL database, finally you can tune it to be strongly consistent and successfully use it as such. However those are not usual patterns, as you negotiate on latency. It works well if you require that. If your use case needs strongly consistent environments with semantics of a relational database or if the use case needs a data warehouse, or if you need NoSQL with ACID transactions, Apache Cassandra may not be the optimum choice.
Read full review This is a CMS solution that uses ASP and now XSLT and ASP.NET MVC environment, so make sure your servers are Windows based. Also, be sure to speak about audits to your CMS environment, this can save you time, money and energy if you intend on developing anything custom in the future. The more prepared your environment, the smoother it is to use this powerful cms.
Read full review Pros Continuous availability: as a fully distributed database (no master nodes), we can update nodes with rolling restarts and accommodate minor outages without impacting our customer services. Linear scalability: for every unit of compute that you add, you get an equivalent unit of capacity. The same application can scale from a single developer's laptop to a web-scale service with billions of rows in a table. Amazing performance: if you design your data model correctly, bearing in mind the queries you need to answer, you can get answers in milliseconds. Time-series data: Cassandra excels at recording, processing, and retrieving time-series data. It's a simple matter to version everything and simply record what happens, rather than going back and editing things. Then, you can compute things from the recorded history. Read full review Its dashboard is quite clear and visible. Its reports are very flexible and helpful for us since they contain all the information that is necessary. The content scheduling feature is good in facilitating us by publishing the content at the time we set. A content repository is amazing as it allows editing, tagging and managing, and storage of the published as well as scheduled publish content. Read full review Cons Cassandra runs on the JVM and therefor may require a lot of GC tuning for read/write intensive applications. Requires manual periodic maintenance - for example it is recommended to run a cleanup on a regular basis. There are a lot of knobs and buttons to configure the system. For many cases the default configuration will be sufficient, but if its not - you will need significant ramp up on the inner workings of Cassandra in order to effectively tune it. Read full review SEO Management - though our courses are not available free publicly but still within our systems a better search engine for the courses and its content could work very well. Ingeniux could be more interactive when it comes to exporting/importing documents. Read full review Likelihood to Renew I would recommend Cassandra DB to those who know their use case very well, as well as know how they are going to store and retrieve data. If you need a guarantee in data storage and retrieval, and a DB that can be linearly grown by adding nodes across availability zones and regions, then this is the database you should choose.
Read full review IGX CMS is a stable product and IGX is a stable company with several other offerings that pair with the CMS including an LMS and CRM (among others).
Read full review Usability It’s great tool but it can be complicated when it comes administration and maintenance.
Read full review Support Rating Sometimes instead giving straight answer, we ‘re getting transfered to talk professional service.
Read full review Friendly, knowledgeable, willing to teach. Their satisfaction is reached when I get my problem solved.
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MongoDB also, but don't like the single point failure possibility. The
HBase coupled us too tightly to the Hadoop world while we prefer more technical flexibility. Also
HBase is designed for "cold"/old historical data lake use cases and is not typically used for web and mobile applications due to its performance concern. Cassandra, by contrast, offers the availability and performance necessary for developing highly available applications. Furthermore, the Hadoop technology stack is typically deployed in a single location, while in the big international enterprise context, we demand the feasibility for deployment across countries and continents, hence finally we are favor of Cassandra
Read full review I have only used the free versions of the other softwares. My Ingeniux CMS experience was much better but I had the paid version
Read full review Return on Investment I have no experience with this but from the blogs and news what I believe is that in businesses where there is high demand for scalability, Cassandra is a good choice to go for. Since it works on CQL, it is quite familiar with SQL in understanding therefore it does not prevent a new employee to start in learning and having the Cassandra experience at an industrial level. Read full review Company employees can easily locate product documentation now. Our team doesn't have to field nearly as many pings and calls from people looking for content. The writers can manage the content much more easily now. For example, multiple writers can work on individual topics as opposed to passing around Word files. We can single-source content that is duplicated across the site. This is a huge time saver. Read full review ScreenShots