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Cassandra as NoSQL fault tolerant database choice
July 06, 2017

Cassandra as NoSQL fault tolerant database choice

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Overall Satisfaction with Cassandra

Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database solution offered by Apache. What's nice about Cassandra is its ability to host the data in multiple nodes in a ring, and changes made to a node in the ring will shard the update to the rest. For geographically dispersed architecture requiring local database storage, this can be a valuable asset which makes this NoSQL option stand above the rest.
  • Cassandra can preform read/writes very quick
  • Nodes in a ring will keep up to date by sharding information to each other
  • Cassandra is well suited for scalable application needing keyspace storage
  • Cassandra's query language is clunky, which is likely due to the nature of NoSQL.
  • Lacking the ability to relate data between sets makes querying harder, but this again is the nature of NoSQL.
  • Cassandra has had a positive effect on our ROI by improving uptime and performance
Cassandra is the only NoSQL database I have extensive experience with. In terms of other open source database solutions, I can say that I like Cassandra as much or equally as traditional Oracle MySQL, and a lot more than PostgresSQL. The decision to use Cassandra was driven by the ability for fast read and writes, as well as fault tolerance by having multiple rings in a cluster which shard data to each other in near real time.
Cassandra doesn't renew. Since it's open source we either choose to continue supporting the data type within our application or not.
Cassandra is suited for applications that need quick read and write abilities. The key to column family relationship allows for super quick lookup and inserts. The nature of the ring cluster allows for fault tolerance, as well as geo-redundant storage. Cassandra is not well suited when needing to use the data to make relational inferences.