DataStax Competitors and Alternatives

What do you think of Cassandra?

Valuable Features Log-structured storage CQL (Cassandra Structure Language) Ease of installation The node setup • Improvements to My Organization This product is used as the storage facility for a very-high-throughput application, where a lot of NoSQL data is being captured and it needs to be processed. • Room for Improvement The clustering needs to be better; it is getting there. • Use of Solution I have used it for four years. • Stability Issues Cassandra is stable thus far; the problems that I have encountered were with CQL and the JSON support in CQL. • Scalability Issues The scalability is good, as long as you understand how to set up the nodes. • Customer Service and Technical Support I did not have any interactions with technical support, because I...

What do you think of MapR?

Valuable Features: MapR-DB is a NoSQl datastore on top of MaprFS. The data can be updated and random data can be picked very fast.  MapR-DB stores data in MapR-FS and it does not have region server like in HBase. • Improvements to My Organization: We have a couple of Hadoop development projects actively going on. Some of them are time series data and others involve customer interaction and marketing data. A NoSQL data storage is ideal for such applications. • Room for Improvement: It would be great if it were completely compatible with HBase. • Use of Solution: 9 months. • Stability Issues: No. • Scalability Issues: No. • Customer Service: Our customer purchased a paid support service and so far MapR has addressed our issues well. They even provided a fix...

What do you think of Hortonworks Data Platform?

Primary Use Case We use it for data science activities. • Improvements to My Organization Data is now available. • Valuable Features I have no preferences towards any feature. • Room for Improvement Security Performance Workload management • Use of Solution Less than one year.