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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

    Riak

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ARiak is a NoSQL database from Basho Technologies in Bellevue, Washington.N/A
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    CassandraRiak
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    CassandraRiak
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    CassandraRiak
    Considered Both Products
    Apache
    Chose Cassandra
    Four years ago, I needed to choose a web-scale database. Having used relational databases for years (PostgreSQL is my favorite), I needed something that could perform well at scale with no downtime. I considered VoltDB for its in-memory speed, but it's limited in scale. I …
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    Basho Technologies
    Chose Riak
    MongoDB seems to have copied a lot of functionality from Riak. This may be because MongoDB hired a number of former Basho engineers when Basho went bankrupt. That said, the new functions added to Riak after it became open source have successfully differentiated itself from Mongo…
    Incentivized
    Chose Riak
    Riak is a key/value pair store which is great for certain use cases. For our use case, the ability to search is an extremely useful feature. Apache Cassandra can provide this while Riak cannot. Also again for our use case, the ability to delete is critical as we strive to …
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    Features
    CassandraRiak
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Apache Cassandra and Riak
    Feature
    Apache Cassandra
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    Riak
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    Performance8.55 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Availability8.85 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Concurrency7.65 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Security8.05 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Scalability9.55 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Data model flexibility6.75 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility7.05 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    User Ratings
    CassandraRiak
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (16 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)