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DataStax Enterprise

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DataStax Enterprise
Score 9.1 out of 10
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DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the scale-out, cloud-native NoSQL database built on Apache Cassandra. DSE is Developer Ready providing developers the freedom of choice of REST, GraphQL, CQL and JSON/Document APIs.N/A
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DataStax Enterprise
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Community Pulse
DataStax Enterprise
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DataStax Enterprise
Verified User
C-Level Executive
Chose DataStax Enterprise
I believe DataStax Enterprise is the best in class. There are some things that are different with the schema-less systems but I found DataStax Enterprise easiest to implement while evaluating. The replication is on par or better than others in practice. We are evaluating …
Julian Chultarsky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Julian Chultarsky
Principal Technologist
Chose DataStax Enterprise
DataStax Enterprise offered best-in-class write performance and scalability. The customer support team was very helpful in the adoption of new technology.
Verified User
Employee
Chose DataStax Enterprise
DataStax has an amazing community built around it and is also Cassandra is an open-source technology. The customer support is quite good compared to other vendors. Though you initially need to spend some hefty amount on infrastructure, in the long run, it makes up for it. We …
Verified User
Engineer
Chose DataStax Enterprise
We chose datastax because we need a system always available and capable of ingesting a large amount of data per second, even if eventually consistent and with multi data center sync native support.

We considered Cloudera as an alternative using Kafka as the ingestion layer but …
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Professional
Chose DataStax Enterprise
Amazon DynamoDB and Datastax Cassandra are similar on masterless architecture and principles, DynamoDB is managed and needs cost analysis. If you need to have better control, Datastax is better.

I also did a prototype with Google Spanner in one of the recent innovation days, it …
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Features
DataStax Enterprise
NoSQL Databases
Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Product A and Product B
DataStax Enterprise
7.9
3 Ratings
11% below category average
Performance9.13 Ratings
Availability9.33 Ratings
Concurrency8.03 Ratings
Security7.93 Ratings
Scalability9.33 Ratings
Data model flexibility5.03 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility6.83 Ratings
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User Ratings
DataStax Enterprise
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.7
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
9.3
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
DataStax Enterprise
Likelihood to Recommend
DataStax
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.
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Pros
DataStax
  • 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.
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Cons
DataStax
  • 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
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Likelihood to Renew
DataStax
We will continue to use it because it scales well with commodity hardware and we are satisfied with the documentation and support.
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Usability
DataStax
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.
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Support Rating
DataStax
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.
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Alternatives Considered
DataStax
DataStax Enterprise offered best-in-class write performance and scalability. The customer support team was very helpful in the adoption of new technology.
Julian Chultarsky | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment
DataStax
  • 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
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