Why is Cassandra faster?

Why is Cassandra faster than MySQL?

Advantages of Cassandra Both horizontal and vertical scalability is an option, as Cassandra uses a linear model for faster responses. Along with scalability, the data storage is flexible. Because it is a NoSQL database, it can deal with structured, unstructured, or semi-structured data.

Are Cassandra reads fast?

Cassandra is excellent for write operations but not so fast on read operations. Both are rather fast but Cassandra does write operation faster. Cassandra has benefits being +HA (no SPOF) + having tuneable Consistency. Cassandra is very fast writing bulk data in sequence and reading them sequentially.

Why is Cassandra the best?

Here are some of the reasons Cassandra is a good fit for IoT and edge computing needs: Cassandra can ingest concurrent data from any node in the cluster, since all have read/write capacity. Ability to handle a large volume of high-velocity, time-series data. High availability.

What was special about Cassandra?

What makes Apache Cassandra unique? Cassandra is one of the most efficient and widely-used NoSQL databases. One of the key benefits of this system is that it offers highly-available service and no single point of failure. This is key for businesses that can afford to have their system go down or to lose data.