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Cassandra
Distributed NoSQL database for handling large data volumes across many servers
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Pricing
Free
Learning curve
Steep
Time to value
Weeks
BEST FORGrowing Business
WORKS FOR
Non-SQL data storage as part of the noSQL movement, Handling large data volumes across many servers
KEY INSIGHT
It's a specialized distributed database for massive scale, not a general-purpose replacement for SQL databases.
DOESN'T WORK FOR
Situations where the relational model and SQL are exceptionally valuable
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FIRST-HAND READS
What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“you're into cassandra. For a medium sized deployment, you're looking at 200+ vcpus”
NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-05-28
“Draining a broken Cassandra ring and under high load is hell and ball clenching. Especially hoping that another Cassandra node doesn't fail under high load.”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-13
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