YugabyteDB vs Cassandra

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Why Choose YugabyteDB vs Cassandra

Strong Data Consistency

YugabyteDB offers distributed ACID transactions, guaranteeing applications access the latest data, unlike Cassandra’s eventually consistent system which risks stale reads, data loss, and resurrected deleted values.

Rapid Horizontal Scaling

YugabyteDB enables quick online scaling, populating new nodes with compressed data, while Cassandra faces delays due to complex node bootstrapping and rebalancing.

High Resource Utilization

YugabyteDB boasts higher data density and usable storage per node, reducing clusters and hardware costs, while Cassandra’s low data density of 1-2 TB per node demands up to 10x more servers.

Powerful Queries

YugabyteDB offers a unified database with multiple APIs. Harness the power of advanced SQL queries with YSQL, adapting your apps seamlessly while utilizing the same core database and infrastructure.

Feature

Cassandra

YugabyteDB

Query Language

Cassandra Query Language (CQL)

Cassandra-inspired API and fully compatible PostgreSQL API

Native JSON

Yes

ACID Transactions

Yes

Consistency

Eventual

Strong

Cluster Expansion

Complex and time-consuming

Quick and non-disruptive

Upgrade Methods

Time-consuming based on volume of data

Quick with zero downtime

Ad Hoc Queries

Difficult and usually requires duplicate table

Seamlessly supported

Replication Options

Asynchronous replication with tunable consistency levels

Synchronous and xCluster asynchronous replication

Data Density

1-2 TB per node

5-10 TB per node

Our customers require immediate and accurate results when querying large data sets. We were able to quickly switch from DataStax to YugabyteDB which offered more compelling features for our developers.

Shannon Holland

CTO, CipherTrace

Benefits of YugabyteDB vs Cassandra

YugabyteDB is the only open source, multi-cloud, multi-API, distributed database designed for mission-critical applications. Its modern, cloud native architecture provides three key advantages over Cassandra.

Faster Productivity

Use well-known APIs, with built-in resilience and scale, to rapidly create apps and promptly address new demands.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Pack more into each node and handle data better. The result…fewer clusters and lower hardware costs (up to 10x).

Improved Efficiency

Scale faster, shrink cluster sizes, and consolidate databases effortlessly.