What is Cassandra best for?

What is Cassandra best used for?

One open source application, Apache Cassandra, enables organisations to process large volumes of fast moving data in a reliable and scalable way. That's why companies like Facebook, Instagram and Netflix use Apache Cassandra for mission-critical features.

What applications use Cassandra?

One of the major applications of Cassandra is storage. The broad coverage of Cassandra enables the user to store any kind of data. This data is stored in various nodes that Cassandra provides. Cisco WebEx, InWorldz, Formspring, OpenX are some companies using Cassandra for storage.

When should you not use Cassandra?

When it's a 'no' Cassandra has limitations when it comes to: ACID transactions. If you expect Cassandra to build a system supporting ACID properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability), unfortunately, it won't work.

What problem does Cassandra solve?

Cassandra is designed to solve problems associated with operating at a large (web) scale. It was designed under similar principles discussed in Amazon's Dynamo paper,[7, p.205] where in a large, complicated system of interconnected hardware, something is always in a state of failure.