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Pros

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Pro
Highly scalable

Cassandra is very scalable and achieves the highest throughput for the maximum number of nodes compared to other alternatives. Unfortunately this also brings rather high write and read latencies.

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Familiar to developers used to SQL

The query language that Cassandra uses (CQL) is similar to SQL even though it's a NoSQL database.

Cons

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Not for newbies

If your dataset is in order of gigabytes then maybe consider a toy database, not a serious one like Cassandra.

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Con
No JOINS

Cassandra has no support for JOINS.

Commonly Compared

Cassandra
vs
RethinkDB
73 Recommendations
Couchbase
44 Recommendations
PostgreSQL
157 Recommendations
Cloudant
6 Recommendations
ArangoDB
16 Recommendations
OrientDB
26 Recommendations
CouchDB
28 Recommendations
MarkLogic
1 Recommendations
MySQL
45 Recommendations
ConcourseDB
3 Recommendations
MongoDB
56 Recommendations
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