Cassandra

Based on 1568 responses from 355 people, we've built up the following picture of Cassandra

Ranked high for:

  1. This database has very good write performance
  2. This database is highly scalable
  3. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  4. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  5. This database has an unusual data model
  6. This database has a good story for replication
  7. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  8. This database has a good community around it
  9. This database has a very flexible data model
  10. This database is good for querying time series

Ranked low for:

  1. I am familiar with this database
  2. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  3. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  4. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  5. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  6. This database has a very restrictive data model
  7. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  8. This database can be a bit arcane
  9. This database is very easy to get started with
  10. There are good open source tools for working with this database

Most similar to

  1. kdb
  2. MongoDB
  3. CouchDB
  4. Redis
  5. BigTable

Most dissimilar from

  1. Excel
  2. h2
  3. Sqlite
  4. MySQL
  5. Access

All statements

  1. This database has very good write performance
  2. This database is highly scalable
  3. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  4. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  5. This database has an unusual data model
  6. This database has a good story for replication
  7. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  8. This database has a good community around it
  9. This database has a very flexible data model
  10. This database is good for querying time series
  11. This database is very reliable
  12. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  13. This database is good for querying graph structures
  14. This database has very good read performance
  15. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  16. This database has a low footprint
  17. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  18. This database is very easy to get started with
  19. This database can be a bit arcane
  20. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  21. This database has a very restrictive data model
  22. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  23. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  24. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  25. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  26. I am familiar with this database