Apache Cassandra 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Apache Cassandra

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About Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra is an open-source database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers. Apache Cassandra is an open-source database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers.

Known for high availability, Cassandra can sustain continuous application availability during component failures. It provides high availability with no single points of failure, scales horizontally on commodity hardware, and offers strong consistency guarantees even if disks fail.

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Apache Cassandra Features

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Apache Cassandra User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

Ratings Breakdown

42%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

3.7

Functionality

4.2

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Abhisha B.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Intuitive for SQL user

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Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The query language cql is quite intuitive specially for sql users. Setup is also very easy since they have extensive documentation. Cassandra also provides very good and easy to use APIs that can be easily integrated in any application.

Cons:

It is a column oriented storage format which takes some time to get used specially for sql users.

Eyamir U.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2018

It has been a pleasant and rewarding experience for the management of data in the cloud and totally

It was very useful to me when I had to develop an application that needed a relational database and a non relational database that was going to be in the cloud, it was very useful and easy to use, as well as it did not give me problems for its use.

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Pros:

It has been a pleasant and profitable experience for the handling of data in the cloud and totally free, the handling of the data oriented to column families, tolerant to failures, since it replicates the data automatically to multiple nodes; When a node fails it can be replaced without any period of inactivity. allows replicas to multiple data centers; data storage type column family. The latest version of CQL3 that made the instructions similar to SQL with what breaks with the mental shock at the time of programming. It really does an efficient handling of data in the cloud.

Cons:

The fact of having the data stored column by column allows us to return the rows more quickly, but when inserting, updating or deleting a record, it must be done in more than one location; for this reason, this type of database is not recommended for OLTP-type, transaction-oriented and high-concurrency systems.

Fırat A.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Not exactly good

It won't take long to learn to use it because if you're an entry-level SQL user, you'll have mastered the entire software in about 10 minutes.

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Pros:

Basically, if you need a database software, you can use it, but you need to be a novice in this business to be extremely satisfied. It needs more improvement and the price should be a little cheaper.

Cons:

Its overall quality should be improved, Simple shortcuts and special complications added. Its price and payment methods need to be updated, it needs more attention but once the minor glitches are cleared I have no doubt you will release a great piece of software.

Piyush J.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2016

Cassandra Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I had used Cassandra in my academic projects which were related to cloud computing. I used it for a few projects on Salesforce where multi tenancy features are implemented. In such scenarios Cassandra was one the best choices for NoSql. Although we have used RDMS, the performance while using Cassandra was better. I have simulated a few real time running apps like Facebook and Uber where I have used RDMS and Cassandra, and checked the performance using Jmeter. It clearly shows that Cassandra boosts the performance over RDMS. One thing I find difficult in Cassandra is following the documents, which are not so understandable.

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Value for money

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Pros:

Undoubtedly performance is an important reason We have not encountered a single point of failure Scalability of Cassandra is good which is the most important for the companies where demand is scaling day by day.

Cons:

Cassandra has a wide range of asynchronous jobs and background tasks that are not scheduled by the client, the execution can be eccentric. Because Cassandra is a key-value store, doing things like SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG and other aggregations are incredibly resource intensive if even possible to accomplish. I think querying options for retrieving data is very limited.

Alpeshkumar G.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2016

Cassandra : Zenith of Open Source NoSQL

We have quite complex requirements of tracing Buses/Truck of African cities of Rwanda for real-time reporting of schedule, breakdown, Traffic management of City using Apache Cassandra. Our team chose Cassandra for quite few reason. Open Source, Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Scalability, and Reliability of software components. I am happy that our team has chosen the right software for delivering complex software Solutions for Our Connected Vehicle Platform. We used it for real-time transactions and analytics. PROs: Fault Tolerance, Availability, and Superb Performance. CONs: It's not good for managing your Application processing. Its NoSQL DB requires lot of different understanding and NoSQL comes with its own issue so it shifts from traditional thinking process of RDBMS. Cassandra required very big learning curve which adds to the cost but benefits out weight this learning cost.

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Vinicius S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Review for Apache Cassandra

Allow users to process large volumes of data, in a scalable and reliable way. It's a fast NoSQL distributed database.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Easy to download, install, deploy and use.

Cons:

Need heavy efforts for training new users.

Reasons for choosing Apache Cassandra

Costs and vast documentation.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

Available at all times

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Pros:

It is designed to handle large amounts of data and can scale to support thousands of nodes across multiple data centers. And of course, it is open source which is a plus.

Cons:

It is a complex database system that requires a high level of expertise to set up and maintain. It can be difficult to configure and optimize.

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Reviewer

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

If something seems too good to be true it probably is.

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Pros:

An easy way to share data across multiple clusters. A proper columnar data store, with some novel quorum modes.

Cons:

No matter how it's configured it's impossible to have really durable data. Having fault tolerant synchronous modes is useless if a node can die because it ran out of journal space. This should never happen! If a node can't write it's journal it should freeze, not the loose consistency of its local data ( I'm talking about corruption here not the loss of consistency with the other nodes). Columnar formatting and retrieval are actually really inefficient. Data formats in anything other than simple storage are bloated and inefficient.

Gregory M.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

It is a powerful database manager noSql

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Pros:

It is spectacular for web applications that handle a large amount of data, the level of data processing is very fast.

Cons:

The learning curve is very strong when you have worked with SQL. The change from SQL to noSQL is somewhat strong.

Deepak Kumar S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used other for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Quite good NoSql family Database

good and reliable NoSql family database .

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

As everything is designed for a specific problem to solve. Cassandra has it's own use cases where it perform very much reliably and efficiently. This is good when you have to capture high velocity traffic and need to do operation over it. Also, it offers other lots of great like very high writing speed, easy integration with other JVM based service/tool like spark, hadoop etc.

Cons:

it has a quite bit hard of learning as you will have to setup the cluster for maintenance and all. And Cassandra is specific to use cases you just can't use it for other.

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