--- description: Review of Apache Cassandra Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Apache Cassandra | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Database Software](/directory/4512/database-management-systems/software) > [Apache Cassandra](/software/271279/apache-cassandra) # Apache Cassandra Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/271279/apache-cassandra Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/271279/apache-cassandra?page=2) > 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. > > Verdict: Rated **4.2/5** by 33 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.2/5** | 33 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Apache Software Foundation - **Founded**: 2011 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Free to download - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop) - **Available Countries**: Germany ## Features - API - Data Replication - Multiple Programming Languages Supported ## Category - [Database Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4512/database-management-systems/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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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. ----- ### "It has been a pleasant and rewarding experience for the management of data in the cloud and totally" — 5.0/5 > **Eyamir** | *4 May 2018* | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "Not exactly good" — 3.0/5 > **Fırat** | *13 September 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "Cassandra Use Cases and Deployment Scope" — 5.0/5 > **Piyush** | *11 October 2016* | Computer Software > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "Cassandra : Zenith of Open Source NoSQL" — 5.0/5 > **Alpeshkumar** | *14 December 2016* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > 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. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/271279/apache-cassandra?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/271279/apache-cassandra) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data