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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Apache Cassandra ## What is Apache Cassandra? Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL distributed database that is trusted by thousands of companies for scalability and high availability without compromising performance. Cassandra's linear scalability, proven fault tolerance, and support for replicating across multiple data centers provides lower latency and peace of mind that applications can survive regional outages. ## What is Apache Cassandra used for? [Database](https://www.capterra.com/database-management-software/) Overall rating Based on 33 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive 85% Neutral 9% Negative 6% Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... 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[### Mingo](https://www.capterra.com/p/228399/Mingo/) [5.0 (14)](https://www.capterra.com/p/228399/Mingo/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price $5 Per User, Per Month Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.0 (33) Ease Of Use 4.9 (14) Value For Money 4.5 (25) Value For Money 4.8 (13) Customer Service 3.7 (24) Customer Service 5.0 (13) ## Apache Cassandra alternatives [InfluxDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/187476/InfluxDB/) [4.6 (7)](https://www.capterra.com/p/187476/InfluxDB/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/187476/InfluxDB/) [Proxycurl](https://www.capterra.com/p/232781/Proxycurl/) [2.0 (3)](https://www.capterra.com/p/232781/Proxycurl/#reviews) Starting price $0.01 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 33% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/232781/Proxycurl/) [Jam SQL Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/10039394/Jam-SQL-Studio/) [0.0](https://www.capterra.com/p/10039394/Jam-SQL-Studio/#reviews) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 0% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/10039394/Jam-SQL-Studio/) [ESF Database Migration Toolkit](https://www.capterra.com/p/154025/ESF-Database-Migration-Toolkit/) [0.0](https://www.capterra.com/p/154025/ESF-Database-Migration-Toolkit/#reviews) Starting price $219.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 0% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/154025/ESF-Database-Migration-Toolkit/) ## Pricing Value for money 4.5 (25) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Value for money 4.5 (25) 4.5 Based on 25 reviews Connect with a Capterra advisor for a free 15-minute consultation Get a personalized software list aligned to your business needs with guidance from our expert advisors. Our team has helped 1 million+ businesses like yours find options that fit their needs. ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 3.7 (24) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 3.7 (24) 3.7 Based on 24 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.2 Based on 33 reviews Filter by rating 5(14) 4(14) 3(3) 2(1) 1(1) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent KS Krishnamurthy S. Self employed Information Technology and Services ### "A good tool for NOSQL database" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 April 8, 2023 Overall a nice tool and I suggest using it for NOSQL database users Pros Cassandra stores data in a column-family format, which is a key-value pair-based storage model. In Cassandra, data is organized into column families, which are similar to tables in a relational database management system. Cons One potential challenge with Cassandra is its complexity. Cassandra has a steep learning curve compared to traditional relational databases, and it requires a deep understanding of its underlying data model, query language, and distributed architecture. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Software Engineer Computer Software ### "Available at all times" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 March 12, 2023 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. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Suru S. BigData Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "A highly available and a consistent flavour of NoSQL Databases" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 February 21, 2023 Been using it and will continue to use it for our Data Engineering needs that involves storing of huge amount of data with a lot of r/w operations we perform every week. Pros It is really beneficial for faster write operations and fast read search type queries that can be used in a pipeline with a high velocity of Read/Write operations. Management of data is carried out well by Cassandra and provides replication with its replication factor and replication strategy to prevent data loss. Cons Apache Cassandra is not meant for analytical queries and it cannot perform certain aggregation functions, Joins like other databases can. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. FA Firat A. CEO Information Technology and Services ### "Not exactly good" 3.0 Overall Rating 3.0 3.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 5/10 September 13, 2022 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. 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. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Pawe W. Software Engineer Research ### "Cassandra as an Open Source Database " 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 August 27, 2022 Pros First of all, I am a fan of Open Source projects and I really enjoy working with Apache products. I have used Cassandra for several months for my research project that included storing unstructured data. I found it a little bit more difficult to use than Amazon DynamoDB, but given that it is the open source project I was thoroughly impressed by all the features and the reliability of Cassandra. I would recommend Cassandra for projects using Open Source technologies. It is very fast and met all of the efficiency metrics and agreements for the project I have been developing. Cons I found it a little bit harder to work with compared to MongoDB and DynamoDB. Nevertheless I believe that for an experienced engineer who has worked with Databases before, it will take couple of weeks to get fully fluent with Cassandra docs. Switched from [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) I wanted to explore other open source solutions. Alternatives considered [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. OD Osman D. Software Engineer Computer Software ### "Apache-Cassandra\_01" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 July 26, 2022 Pros Apache Cassandra is good for bigdata systems. Cons Apache Cassandra has not translaction support Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. VS Vinicius S. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Review for Apache Cassandra" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 April 6, 2022 Allow users to process large volumes of data, in a scalable and reliable way. It's a fast NoSQL distributed database. Pros Easy to download, install, deploy and use. Cons Need heavy efforts for training new users. Alternatives considered [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) Reasons for choosing Apache Cassandra Costs and vast documentation. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. PJ Peter J. Architect Outsourcing/Offshoring ### "Timeseries Database" 3.0 Overall Rating 3.0 3.0 Ease of Use 2.0 2.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 1.0 1.0 Likelihood to Recommend 4/10 February 9, 2021 Looks good on paper but has been very costly in terms of required resources to finally manage the load. Training material is limited and people with real experience are scarce. Pros Opensource license provides an easy cost entry point Programmatic support for our purpose was very good. Cons There is only one commercial version of this product and licensing is high. It can consume far more resources to handle the workload you give it than spec data suggests Alternatives considered [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) Reasons for choosing Apache Cassandra It was selected as the best fit on paper however without a real world run off between the two we missed some apparent weaknesses Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User VP Financial Services ### "Great Columnar Nosql Database - Cassandra" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 10, 2020 Overall it has been a wonderful experience using Cassandra with very low/none downtime to High availability and partition tolerance behavior Pros \- High availability as no master slave concept - Partition tolerance of the system - Replication across multi data centers Cons \- Upgrade to a higher version is non-trivial and requires a lot of testing and evaluation - Cqlsh query results not formatted well which creates confusion in reading Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. MD Mallikarjuna D. Lead consultant Information Technology and Services ### "Review on Cassandra" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 2/10 September 12, 2020 I would strongly recommend this software for using distributing systems Pros As a user I would like it handle big data workflows across multiple nodes without any single point of failure .and it’s acting like a distributor among all the clusters Cons It have a capability when nodes goes down read and write request will be stored in other node with in network Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. 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