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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cassandra

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACassandra is a no-SQL database from Apache.N/A

    Astra DB

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAstra DB from DataStax is a vector database for developers that need to get accurate Generative AI applications into production, fast.N/A
    Pricing
    CassandraAstra DB
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CassandraAstra DB
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CassandraAstra DB
    Considered Both Products
    Apache
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    DataStax
    Chose Astra DB
    Astra in the general case ends up coming in cheaper than it costs to run your own VMs on a VPS to self-host either Cassandra or Scylla. How they do that, I don't know, but I'm glad they do!
    Incentivized
    Chose Astra DB
    Most of our time get spend on managing cluster while using Apache Cassandra but with astra as it is managed service we saves our lot of time
    Incentivized
    Chose Astra DB
    We chose Astra as our primary database for time series data was already on Apache Cassandra. We also utilize a small postgres database for relational data within the application, but it made sense to migrate the data to Astra from Apache Cassandra.
    Incentivized
    Chose Astra DB
    We already used some NoSQL databases and of course Apache Cassandra itself. We wanted cloud based and globally distributed Apache Cassandra as DBaaS service. Managing IaaS for this role is expensive and cumbersome in terms of managing yourself. Free tier and pricing model of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Astra DB
    The biggest competitor was Cassandra which we have been using as the self-hosted solution, so we had the option of going to hosted versions as well. The main advantage of Astra was the ability to combine managed experience with scalability, which was Datastax' strong suit. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Astra DB
    We selected Astra for reducing complexity of our operations, local support, scalability, reliability, and business continuity/contingency planning reasons. We're a small team so prefer a database-as-a-solution model.
    Incentivized
    Chose Astra DB
    For the workloads we use Astra DB for it was a better choice than the other databases.
    It worked out to be more scalable and cost affective than the traditional relational databases.
    Also performant and without the downsides of size limits compared to other services.
    Incentivized
    Chose Astra DB
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    CassandraAstra DB
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Apache Cassandra and Astra DB
    Feature
    Apache Cassandra
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    Astra DB
    -
    Ratings
    Performance8.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability8.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Concurrency7.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data model flexibility6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vector Database
    Comparison of Vector Database features of Apache Cassandra and Astra DB
    Feature
    Apache Cassandra
    -
    Ratings
    Astra DB
    6.8
    6 Ratings
    Vector Data Connection00 Ratings8.16 Ratings
    Vector Data Editing00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Attribute Management00 Ratings9.13 Ratings
    Geospatial Analysis00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Geometric Transformations00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Vector Data Visualization00 Ratings6.34 Ratings
    Coordinate Reference System Management:00 Ratings5.52 Ratings
    Data Import/Export00 Ratings6.35 Ratings
    Symbolization and Styling00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Data Sharing and Collaboration00 Ratings7.44 Ratings
    User Ratings
    CassandraAstra DB
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (16 ratings)
    8.2
    (40 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (38 ratings)