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Apache Cassandra

Open-source NoSQL database

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Apache Cassandra - 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

What is Apache Cassandra?

Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database that helps businesses manage large amounts of data across multiple nodes, providing fast and reliable performance along with high availability.

The most popular use cases for Apache Cassandra are Backup/Archive, Big Data Analytics with Hadoop, and Log/Metrics Collection. With horizontal scalability, it can rapidly store, retrieve and manage data while providing high availability with no single point of failure.

Apache Cassandra offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple data centers, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients.

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Apache Cassandra pricing

Value for money rating:

4.5

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Pricing details

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Apache Cassandra integrations (21)

Integrations rated by users

We looked through 33 user reviews, to identify which products are mentioned as Apache Cassandra integrations, and what is the users perception.

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Integration rating: 4.0 (2)

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Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Apache Cassandra support options

Typical customers

Freelancers

Small businesses

Mid size businesses

Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web

Android

iPhone/iPad

Training options

Documentation

Apache Cassandra reviews

Overall rating

4.2

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown

Value for money
Ease of use
Features
Customer support
Likelihood to recommend7.74/10

Rating distribution

Pros

“Also, it offers other lots of great like very high writing speed, easy integration with other JVM based service/tool like spark, hadoop etc.”

Deepak Kumar S.

Quality Assurance Engineer

“Apache cassandra is a good noSql database tool that can handle large data set effectively. It is great for distributed database design.”

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“Overall it has been a wonderful experience using Cassandra with very low/none downtime to High availability and partition tolerance behavior.”

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Cons

“Row level inconsistency sometimes poses problems with usage in Cassandra. This means when the same row is inserted and updated at the same time, there can be consistency issues with it.”

Neha V.

Software Engineer

“Update are too costly ie it takes up too much space in the system.”

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“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.”

Deepak Kumar S.

Quality Assurance Engineer

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