These are my personal opinions based on few months using Cassandra. These are my views. Others may have different opinion
http://khangaonkar.blogspot.com/2014/06/apache-cassandra-things-to-consider.html regards On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Prem Yadav <ipremya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have seen this in a lot of replies that Cassandra is not designed for > this and that. I don't want to sound rude, i just need some info about this > so that i can compare it to technologies like hbase, mongo, elasticsearch, > solr, > etc. > > 1) what is Cassandra designed for. Heave writes yes. So is Hbase. Or > ElasticSearch > What is the use case(s) that suit Cassandra. > > 2) What kind of queries are best suited for Cassandra. > I ask this Because I have seen people asking about queries and getting > replies that its not suited for Cassandra. For ex: queries where large > number of rows are requested and timeout happens. Or range queries or > aggregate queries. > > 3) Where does Cassandra excel compared to other technologies? > > I have been working on Casandra for some time. I know how it works and I > like it very much. > We are moving towards building a big cluster. But at this point, I am not > sure if its a right decision. > > A lot of people including me like Cassandra in my company. But it has more > to do with the CQL and not the internals or the use cases. Until now, there > have been small PoCs and people enjoyed it. But a large scale project, we > are not so sure. > > Please guide us. > Please note that the drawbacks of other technologies do not interest me, > its the strengths/weaknesses of Cassandra I am interested in. > Thanks > > > > > > > -- http://khangaonkar.blogspot.com/
