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Running Apache Cassandra/Pulsar for Enterprise
What do you like best about the product?
The scalability of Cassandra, along with the customizations done by Datastax, is terrific for enterprise use cases. AstraDB, their Database as a service, is easy to use and cost-effective. There are drivers/SDKs/APIs for most languages/tools/frameworks you want to integrate with. Stargate is a cherry on top of the cake. The Astra Streaming service is an excellent managed service of Apache Pulsar.
What do you dislike about the product?
A few general issues with Apache Cassandra are no transactional guarantee and joins. The eventual consistency will not work for all use cases. The Astra service lacks capabilities for extendable monitoring and observability. Datastax Astra also lacks the ability for refined RBAC and network security.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Datastax Astra DB and Streaming for our database and streaming needs. The billing is simple, and the integration is as well. The serverless database helped us reduce the overall costs.
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Astra is great!
DataStax Astra DB for AWS Marketplace works great for running Cassandra 4.0 workloads! It's serverless and pay as you go.
DBA
What do you like best about the product?
It's distributed capability, availability and horizontal scaleability.
What do you dislike about the product?
One area I wanted to see in their next major version is ease fo backup tool. Maybe integrated within OpsCenter with more flexibility.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RDBMs typically very hard to scale horizontally and it gets performance degradation as your data increases, however if you design your queries and data model correctly and properly, the speed of operations are sub-millis, especially for large write operations.
Good experience, very good product
What do you like best about the product?
The quality of the product is really good, it really goes beyond the open source Apache Cassandra.
What do you dislike about the product?
The quality of the support, from time to time we had issues lasting for more than a year (sic), or every time we had to explain our setup to the support representative as they had no clue about our company and our background.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We manage to provide a platform as a service to multiple different development teams. DataStax came into the play because no one had the knowledge on distributed databases at scale so their participation was paramount to the kickoff of the project.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
They have a good product and a huge experience with multiple different customers from different business domains. They are also offering now a flavor based on the open source version that might help people or organizations with specific needs, or afraid of lock-in, which is great.
DataStax Power Cisco
What do you like best about the product?
1. High Availbility
2. Performance
3. Easy Install and Configured
4. Other Component like Spark,Solr and Graph
5. Easy to manage and save man hours
6. Support
7. Friendly behaviour by DataStax team
2. Performance
3. Easy Install and Configured
4. Other Component like Spark,Solr and Graph
5. Easy to manage and save man hours
6. Support
7. Friendly behaviour by DataStax team
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Integration with other Apache product
2. Add more query related features in cassandra work load.
3. Enhance Inc Backup kayespace/Column family level
4. More Webinar and marketing like other Competator doing.
2. Add more query related features in cassandra work load.
3. Enhance Inc Backup kayespace/Column family level
4. More Webinar and marketing like other Competator doing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. day to day Production issue
2. Data Modeling
3. Architecture walk through
4. Prformance
5. Corruptions
6. Patches and Bugs
2. Data Modeling
3. Architecture walk through
4. Prformance
5. Corruptions
6. Patches and Bugs
Is DataStax Worth the Hype?
What do you like best about the product?
This program is awesome for keeping track of and managing your data! I would recommend it to anyone. Very easy to use and performs magnificently.
What do you dislike about the product?
I cannot think of anything that I dislike about DataStax.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No problems. Benefits are awesome! I am now able to easily manage my data in a way that I have never before been able to.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try! You won’t be disappointed.
Great for Cassandra implementations
What do you like best about the product?
Best in class Distribution of Apache
Cassandra addresses challenges involving adoption, maintainability and support by streamlining operations and control costs for all your Apache Cassandra workloads.
Cassandra addresses challenges involving adoption, maintainability and support by streamlining operations and control costs for all your Apache Cassandra workloads.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need the complete enterprise version for advanced database features, security and analytics,. Do not use for use cases that requires a relational DB and ACID transactions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Implementation of globally distributed, linearly scalable for high streaming data writes - for transaction logging, storing time series data, tracking etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You may need this if you want a enterprise version of Cassandra implementation to leverage full potential
Review for DataStax
What do you like best about the product?
Our data was decentralized. It has therefore become indispensable to implement a customer master data management solution to deploy a consolidated vision of our clients in one single point.
What do you dislike about the product?
Beneath the covers, the Cassandra data storage layer is basically a key-value storage system. This means that you must "model" your data around the queries you want to surface, rather than around the structure of the data itself. This can lead to storing the data multiple times in different ways to be able to satisfy the requirements of your application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The write volume it can handle. It is able to handle such a large volume of writes by first writing to an in-memory data structure, then to an append-only log.
DATASTAX IS GREAT!
What do you like best about the product?
DATASTAX is an amazing tool for enhancing training and organization throughout our company. It's helped us integrate departments and employees which has helped us all improve greatly especially in terms of scalability.
What do you dislike about the product?
Datastax is a bit expensive especially for smaller companies who are budget conscious. I also which the processes could be sped up a bit. There is also a learning curve to Datastax which I believe requires someone well versed to get through and teach to others.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using DataStax to train new and existing employees. We also use DataStax to improve our management systems.
DataStax FTW
What do you like best about the product?
Their customer service and support is phenomenal. Very accommodating and knowledgeable
What do you dislike about the product?
Their solution is pricey compared to other solutions but you get what you pay for
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am building a Customer 360 data management system to better understand my company’s customers
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