Cassandra Reviews & Product Details

Cassandra is a distributed wide-column NoSQL database used to store and serve large datasets, particularly for high-volume write workloads. Its distributed design supports scaling across nodes and keeping data available when a node fails.

What company sizes and industries is Cassandra the best fit for?

Cassandra is used across company sizes, with the strongest fit among larger enterprises and mid-market organizations. The industries with the most representation include information technology, internet, software, computer and network security, and retail.

Enterprise: Organizations with more than 1,000 employees.
Mid-market: Organizations with 51–1,000 employees.
Small business: Organizations with 50 or fewer employees.
Information technology and services: A prominent industry segment.
Internet and computer software: Both are recurring use contexts.
Computer and network security, and retail: Also represented among positive users.

What customer support options does Cassandra provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Cassandra’s support experience can depend on the help and expertise available to a team. Users describe commercial support and tooling as helpful, while also noting that operational issues can require specialized knowledge and that community resources may feel limited.

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Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/17/2024

"Best database for distributed systems"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cassandra?

It's a highly scalable database management system. The most beneficial thing about Cassandra is its strong consistency across its nodes. And there is no single point of failure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cassandra?

Learning curve is steep when you dig into the internals of Cassandra on how it handles compaction and availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dennis S.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/3/2022

"Works Smoothly"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Cassandra?

Cassandra is a good choice for wide-column database. It's well documented, stable, with great compatibility with many apps, frameworks, and repositories. And it has proven to be a very stable and good database engine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cassandra?

Compared to Scylla, maybe there are some downsides on performance. But, there is also a tradeoff in which Cassandra is more well-established and commonly used, resulting in better compatibilities and community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avnish S.

Technical Associate

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/21/2022

"Best NoSql Column Store Database"

5/5

What do you like best about Cassandra?

Scalable Database

Open Source

Wide Community Support

Blazing Fast Speeds

The goodness of SQL with Enhanced CQL

Can store huge amount of data

Denormalization of the data gets rid of the painful joins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cassandra?

A slight curve of learning if moving from RDBMS, preciseness in defining the primary keys or specifically clustering and partitioning keys, No support for views except for experimental materialized views Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cassandra:

If you are looking for a no SQL database with high scalability and fast data writes, with almost 0 downtime Cassandra is the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cassandra solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating a Data Visualization from the data engineering pipeline which needed all open source tools, and for the choice of database, no other database than Cassandra with no master-slave clustering is more efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yogesh B.

Technical Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/5/2021

"Cassandra good database"

4/5

What do you like best about Cassandra?

Cassandra is good to handle configurations related data, management data. User data. data which keep changing, we can use cassandra. Casaandra supports high availability also, replication etc., Cassandra is easy to learn as its based on sql structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cassandra?

It is read-heavy, we need to create new tables for each need. Modifying a table is costly. Consumes more storage for the same information if we store in any other databases. Schema is very strict, it is very difficult to change the schema. we have to go with creating new tables everytime we wanty to change schema. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Devendra P.

DBA

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/6/2022

"Cassandra DB"

5/5

What do you like best about Cassandra?

Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database to manage a larger amount of data and the best possibilities for easy handling of data in unstructured form. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cassandra?

The Cassandra DB is not maintained SQL data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arpit G.

DevOps Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 3/24/2022

"Scylla over Cassandra"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Cassandra?

Architecture and replication which helps to achieve high HA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cassandra?

Amount of space occupied by the tables is huge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/11/2022

"Poor performance, high administration overhead"

1.5/5

What do you like best about Cassandra?

Scales nicely for writes, CQL is easy to pickup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cassandra?

Poor performance (suffering from JVM usage), needs a large node count to handle writes (it does not fit well with fewer nodes using larger machines). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/28/2021

"Cassandra review"

4/5

What do you like best about Cassandra?

I like the NoSQL feature in Cassandra which is easy to understand from an RDBMS point of view as well. It is flexible and scalable as well. The high availability works very well in Cassandra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cassandra?

There is less performance tuning tool inbuilt in Cassandra which is making it difficult to tune the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nagesh C.

Software Engineering Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/31/2020

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"Cassandra is excellent to store massive amount of data"

5/5

What do you like best about Cassandra?

We have used is as a write fast solution and its working really great we are managing around 300 gb of data daily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cassandra?

Nothing as such, everything looks fine and working as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cassandra:

Cassandra is really good to hold massive amount of data and one can use is as a really fast write friendly big data solution . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cassandra solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using it to store Gbs of analytics data the amount of data is really massive and Cassandra working for us, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.