Pros and Cons of Cassandra 2025

Overview

What is Cassandra?

Cassandra is a no-SQL database from Apache.

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Rating: 6 out of 10

April 7, 2021

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Used for specific product (which is used by whole organization). Addressing for column store we need for uniqueness of proprietary information that Redis and Mongo does not su...

Anson Abraham

Engineer - Engineering

Data Lord

PlaceIQ

7 years of experience

One of the Best NoSQL Databases!

Rating: 8 out of 10

June 30, 2019

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Cassandra is currently used for our enterprise eCommerce platform. So far our experience is good with Cassandra its an extremely powerful NoSQL Database with high performance—...

Priti Asai / Thakkar

Engineer - Engineering

Lead Software Engineer

macys.com

5 years of experience

Cassandra at scale

Rating: 8 out of 10

March 16, 2019

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It’s one of the database platforms we offer to the development community in our organization. We have various selections when it comes to databases including DB2, SQL Server, ...

Glen Kim

Consultant - Information Technology

Senior Software Engineer

USAA

1 year of experience

Cassandra - a tunable NoSQL datastore

Rating: 9 out of 10

March 7, 2019

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Cassandra is a NoSQL database which is used to store a large amount of data quickly. It has a very fast write speed, allowing a large volume of data storage within a small amo...

Dhruba Jyoti Nag

Analyst - Information Technology

Associate

Cognizant

2 years of experience

Pretty good software

Rating: 8 out of 10

February 26, 2019

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Cassandra is used in my organization by my department to handle data that is not in a standard RDMBS format.

Feng Cai

Advisor - Information Technology

DB2 UDB DBA

CVS Caremark

2 years of experience

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Cassandra is a no-SQL database from Apache.

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Features

NoSQL Databases

NoSQL databases are designed to be used across large distrusted systems. They are notably much more scalable and much faster and handling very large data loads than traditional relational databases.

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Performance
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How fast the database performs under data load
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Availability
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Availability is the probability that the NoSQL database will be available to preform its function when called upon.
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Concurrency
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Concurrency is the ability for multiple processes to access or change shared data simultaneously. The greater the number of concurrent user processes that can execute without blocking each other, the greater the concurrency of the database system.
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Security
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Security features include authentication against external security mechanisms liker LDAP, Windows Active Directory, and authorization or privilege management. Some NoSQL databases also support encryption.
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Scalability
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NoSQL databases are inherently more stable than relational databases and have built-in support for replication and partitioning of data to support scalability.
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Data model flexibility
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NoSQL databases do not rely on rely on tables, columns, rows, or schemas to organize and retrieve data, but use use more flexible data models to accommodate the large volume and variety of data being generated by modern applications.
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Deployment model flexibility
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Can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud.

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Cassandra is a no-SQL database from Apache.

Reviewers rate Scalability highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of Cassandra are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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Rating: 6 out of 10

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April 07, 2021

Anson Abraham

Data Lord

PlaceIQ (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)

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7 years of experience

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Pros

Masterless
Schema-less
Multiple datacenter usage w/ little or no data loss

Cons

Rebuild/repair of objects (tables) in the keyspaces, allow to ignore keyspaces to repair.
Monitoring tool form opscenter support for Cassandra 3.x (or some other open source tool)
UI browser type to view data (rather than csql)

One of the Best NoSQL Databases!

Rating: 8 out of 10

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June 30, 2019

Priti Asai / Thakkar

Lead Software Engineer

macys.com (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

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5 years of experience

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Pros

Continuous data availability is extremely powerful feature of Cassandra.
Overall cost effective and low maintenance database platform.
High performance and low tolerance no SQL database.

Cons

Moving data from and to Cassandra to any relational database platform can be improved.
Database event logging can be handled more efficiently.

Cassandra at scale

Rating: 8 out of 10

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March 16, 2019

Glen Kim

Senior Software Engineer

USAA (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)

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Verified User

1 year of experience

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Pros

Availability
Fast performance
Horizontal scalability
Memory first
Partition based

Cons

Dealing with tombstone
Maintenance/upgrade
Compaction and repair

Pretty good software

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 26, 2019

Feng Cai

DB2 UDB DBA

CVS Caremark (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)

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Verified User

2 years of experience

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Pros

Runs on commodity hardware
Build in fault tolerance
Can grow horizontally

Cons

It is a bit difficult for people that come from the SQL world.
Managing anti-entropy repair is still a bit of a challenge.
Better security patches.

Cassandra - a tunable NoSQL datastore

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 07, 2019

Dhruba Jyoti Nag

Associate

Cognizant (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees)

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Verified User

2 years of experience

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Pros

Write speed. Cassandra is very fast while writing data due to its unique architecture.
Tunable consistency - During data replication, consistency can be tuned for a particular data set to be available during an outage.
CQL - cassandra query language is a subset of SQL and eases the transition from a more traditional database.

Cons

Aggregation functions are not very efficient.
Ad-hoc queries do not perform well. Queries which were visualized while designing the databases only perform well.
Performance is unpredictable.

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