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Cassandra: Cassandra Is The Best Choice For Use Cases

Cassandra is a wide column store database managed by the Apache Software Foundation. It uses an SQL-like query language called CQL and supports eventual consistency. Cassandra has advantages like free cost, elasticity, fault tolerance and high performance, but lacks support for data integration and streaming. MongoDB is a popular document-oriented database initially developed by 10gen. It uses schema-free documents and has flexibility but memory is not expandable and joins require multiple queries. Both Cassandra and MongoDB are NoSQL databases best for unstructured data with evolving requirements.

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Cassandra: Cassandra Is The Best Choice For Use Cases

Cassandra is a wide column store database managed by the Apache Software Foundation. It uses an SQL-like query language called CQL and supports eventual consistency. Cassandra has advantages like free cost, elasticity, fault tolerance and high performance, but lacks support for data integration and streaming. MongoDB is a popular document-oriented database initially developed by 10gen. It uses schema-free documents and has flexibility but memory is not expandable and joins require multiple queries. Both Cassandra and MongoDB are NoSQL databases best for unstructured data with evolving requirements.

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Cassandra

Introduction Cassandra was built at Facebook then released as


open source in 2008. It’s now being managed by The
Apache Software Foundation.

Primary database Wide column store


model
Supported operating BSD, Linux, OS X, Windows
systems
Support of SQL SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Stored Procedure No
support
Triggers support Yes
Replication methods Selectable replication factor
In-memory capabilities No

Written language Java


Protocol CQL3
Advantages Free of cost
Peer to peer structural design
Elasticity
Fault tolerance
Great Performer
Column based
Adjustable steadiness

Disadvantages No support to Data Integration


No streaming of globule values.
No cursor support,
Large outputs must be physically paged

When to use Cassandra is the best choice for use cases:


SQL-style data types.
Very fast write speeds.
Steep learning curve when switching from SQL.

Conclusion In short, if you want a database that’s similar to RDBMS but offers more flexibility at the same time, ch
Cassandra. If you need a higher degree of flexibility and are willing to learn something new, pick Mon
(Source- https://tableplus.io/blog/2018/10/cassandra-vs-mongodb-nosql-db-comparison.html)
MongoDB
MongoDB was built in 2007 by 10gen, which later
renamed to MongoDB, Inc. MongoDB, Inc. provides
development of the software and sells their
enterprise solution.

Document store

Linux, OS X, Solaris, Windows

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector


for BI
Javascript

No
Master-slave replication
Yes

C++
Custom binary (BSON)
Scalability
Flexibility
User-friendly
No concept of rows and columns
No re-establishment of indexing

Memory is not expandable


Joins can be done only through multiple queries
No transactions can be done

MongoDB is best for workloads with:


Lots of highly unstructured data.
Evolving data requirements.
Loosely coupled objectives — the design may change
by over time

ilar to RDBMS but offers more flexibility at the same time, choose
flexibility and are willing to learn something new, pick MongoDB.
018/10/cassandra-vs-mongodb-nosql-db-comparison.html)
Additional info
They are both NoSQL database.
No ACID compliance.
Both keep recent data in memory to improve performance.
Both data stores discourage joins and prefer denormalization.
Name Cassandra
Description Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable
and DynamoDB Optimized for write access

Primary database model Wide column store


Secondary database models
DB-Engines Ranking
Score 123.37
Rank #11 Overall
#1 Wide column stores
Website cassandra.apache.org

Technical documentation cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

Developer Apache Software Foundation


Initial release 2008
Current release 3.11.4, February 2019
License Open Source
Cloud-based only no
Implementation language Java
Server operating systems BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme schema-free

Typing yes
XML support no
Secondary indexes restricted
SQL SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements
(CQL)
APIs and other access methods Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts no
Triggers yes
Partitioning methods Sharding
Replication methods selectable replication factor
MapReduce yes
Consistency concepts Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys no
Transaction concepts no

Concurrency yes
Durability yes
In-memory capabilities no
User concepts Access rights for users can be defined per
object
MongoDB Oracle NoSQL
One of the most popular document stores Key-value store based on Berkeley DB
Java Edition

Document store Key-value store


Relational DBMS

Score 395.09 Score 3.05


Rank #5 Overall Rank #80 Overall
#1 Document stores #13 Key-value stores
www.mongodb.com www.oracle.com/database/nosql/index.html

docs.mongodb.com/manual docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/index.html

MongoDB, Inc Oracle


2009 2011
4.0.6, February 2019 18.3, November 2018
Open Source Open Source
no no
C++ Java
Linux Linux
OS X Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris
Windows

schema-free optional, scheme definition possible with


AVRO or in 'table-style'
yes optional
no
yes yes
Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB SQL-like DML and DDL statements
Connector for BI
proprietary protocol using JSON RESTful HTTP API
Actionscript C
C C#
C# Java
C++ JavaScript (Node.js)
Clojure Python
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript no
no no
Sharding Sharding
Master-slave replication Electable Master-Slave per shard
yes with Hadoop integration
Eventual Consistency Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency Immediate Consistency

no no
Multi-document ACID Transactions with configurable
snapshot isolation
yes yes
yes yes
yes yes
Access rights for users and roles Access rights for users and roles

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