Likelihood to Recommend if you're doing joins from hBASE, hdfs, cassandra and redis, then this works. Using it as a be all end all does not suit it. This is not your straight forward magic software that works for all scenarios. One needs to determine the use case to see if Apache Drill fits the needs. 3/4 of the time, usually it does.
Read full review Real-time transaction processing (both reads and writes) is where DataStax Enterprise shines. It's very fast with linear scalability should more resources be needed. Additional nodes are added very easily. DataStax Enterprise on its own (without Solr or Spark enabled) isn't well suited for long complicated reports. The data model doesn't support joining multiple tables together which is common in BI reporting.
Read full review Pros queries multiple data sources with ease. supports sql, so non technical users who know sql, can run query sets 3rd party tools, like tableau, zoom data and looker were able to connect with no issues Read full review Datastax Cassandra provides high availability and good performance for a database. It is built on top of open source Apache Cassandra so you can always somewhat understand the internal functioning and why. Datastax Cassandra is fairly simple to start using, you can install/setup your cluster and be productive in 1 day. Datastax Cassandra provides a lot of good detailed documentation, and when starting, the detailed free videos on the Datastax site and documentation are very helpful. Datastax Enterprise Edition of Cassandra provides more tools, good support, and quick response SLA for enterprise business support. Read full review Cons deployment. Not as easy configuration isn't as straight forward, especially with the documentation Garbage collection could be improved upon Read full review Cassandra is a bit difficult to learn and understand The costs are slightly higher for our company Hardware requirement is moderate to high at the beginning Read full review Likelihood to Renew if Presto comes up with more support (ie hbase, s3), then its strongly possible that we'll move from apache drill to prestoDB. However, Apache drill needs more configuration ease, especially when it comes to garbage collection tuning. If apache drill could support also sparkSQL and
Flume , then it does change drill into being something more valuable than prestoDB
Read full review We will continue to use it because it scales well with commodity hardware and we are satisfied with the documentation and support.
Read full review Usability There is a bit of a learning curve and tasks that are simple in traditional RDBMS systems can be complicated with DataStax Enterprise but once you get the hang of denormalizing data and getting the data model correct DataStax Enterprise is very usable. Usability from the developer's standpoint is very simple - the complication is on the architecture side with the data model.
Read full review Support Rating DataStax has the best community. They have instant customer support to solve problems and are knowledgeable of the problems faced by the customer. The documentation is pretty top-notch.
Read full review Alternatives Considered compared to presto, has more support than prestodb. Impala has limitations to what drill can support apache phoenix only supports for hbase. no support for cassandra. Apache drill was chosen, because of the multiple data stores that it supports htat the other 3 do not support. Presto does not support hbase as of yet. Impala does not support query to cassandra
Read full review DataStax Enterprise offered best-in-class write performance and scalability. The customer support team was very helpful in the adoption of new technology.
Read full review Return on Investment Configuration has taken some serious time out. Garbage collection tuning. is a constant hassle. time and effort applied to it, vs dedicating resources elsewhere. w/ sql support, reduces the need of devs to generate the resultset for analysts, when they can run queries themselves (if they know sql). Read full review Highly Scalable Database, Highly Available Services, and Platforms. High Performance, Low Latency and Highest throughput across varying workloads. Configured, Tuned and Monitored correctly works to provide the best user experience! Negative: Maintenance and Debugging Corner Cases Read full review ScreenShots