Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to SafariWhen comparing Oracle Database vs Apache Cassandra, the Slant community recommends Apache Cassandra for most people. In the question“What are the best databases to use for Node.js applications?” Apache Cassandra is ranked 13th while Oracle Database is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Apache Cassandra is:
Once setup database is set up, it becomes highly available without any downtime.
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro World wide technical support
Oracle is a large company with specialists in a lot of countries. It's very easy to find consultants and any kind of help with Oracle.
Pro Useful features for daily workflow
Some of the most important features are the partitioning option, active data guard, and security options. All of these are very useful for daily workflow.
Pro Stable
Pro Secure
Pro Scalable
Pro Reduced downtime during upgrades
Oracle Database has parallel upgrading for high available applications. Updates are made in parallel without keeping the database down.
Pro High performance parallel quesries
Oracle Database has introduced concurrent execution of union branches, which means that one set of parallel servers will execute one branch, a second set will execute another branch and so on. Instead of the old system where each branch executed one after the other.
Pro Highly available cluster
Once setup database is set up, it becomes highly available without any downtime.
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.
Pro Familiar to developers used to SQL
The query language that Cassandra uses (CQL) is similar to SQL even though it's a NoSQL database.
Pro Rapid writing and lightning-fast reading
After measuring the read/write performance values on one server, you can simply calculate how many more servers you should add to the cluster to reach the required performance levels, and scale easily.
Cons
Con Proprietary
Con Terrible company reputation
Oracle is very (in)famous for being involved in a number of controversies. Some of them have ended up in lawsuits with other tech companies because of license disputes. The latest one is a lawsuit against Google for Google's implementation of JAVA in their Android ecosystem.
Con Ghost data
To work around ghost data you can after encrypting something, manually move everything out of the old table space and then shred those data files. To be able to get rid of ghost data automatically would be great.
Con No JOINS
Cassandra has no support for JOINS.
