Where Cassandra Really Shines
Where Cassandra REALLY shines and is often overlooked is ease of maintenance. Cassandra’s ability to bootstrap new nodes, replicate, reshard and handle down nodes (w/ hinted handoff) is almost magical. I use it in production and it works very reliably.
Sure, it’s got some cool big data stuff, but try doing any of those “maintenance” operations on other databases without ripping your hair out. For example, even bringing up a new MySQL slave is a huge pain in the ass, let alone doing something non-trivial like promoting a new master.
Reinforcing exactly what I emphasized as merits of NoSQL systems in is SQL or NoSQL better for programmers.
Original title and link: Where Cassandra Really Shines (©myNoSQL)
