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We performed a comparison between Cassandra and InfluxDB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two NoSQL Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"The solution's database capabilities are very good.""The most valuable features of Cassandra are the NoSQL database, high performance, and zero-copy streaming.""Some of the valued features of this solution are it has good performance and failover.""Cassandra is good. It's better than CouchDB, and we are using it in parallel with CouchDB. Cassandra looks better and is more user-friendly.""Our primary use case for the solution is testing.""I am satisfied with the performance.""Can achieve continuous data without a single downtime because of node to node ring architecture.""Cassandra has some features that are more useful for specific use cases where you have time series where you have huge amounts of writes. That should be quick, but not specifically the reads. We needed to have quicker reads and writes and this is why we are using Cassandra right now."

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"InfluxDB is a database where you can insert data. However, it would be best if you had different components for alerting, data sending, and visualization. You need to install tools to collect data from servers. It must be installed on Windows or Linux servers. During installation, ensure that the configuration file is correct to prevent issues. Once data is collected, it can be sent to InfluxDB. For visualization, you can use open-source tools like Grafana.""In our case, it started with a necessity to fill the gap that we had in monitoring. We had very reactive monitoring without trend analysis and without some advanced features. We were able to implement them by using a time series database. We are able to have all the data from applications, logs, and systems, and we can use a simple query language to correlate all the data and make things happen, especially with monitoring. We could more proactively monitor our systems and our players' trends.""The user interface is well-designed and easy to use. It provides a clear overview of the data, making it simple to understand the information at hand.""The solution is very powerful.""InfluxDB's best feature is that it's a cloud offering. Other good features include its time-series DB, fast time-bulk queries, and window operations.""The most valuable feature of the solution is we can use InfluxDB to integrate with and plug into any other tools.""The most valuable features of InfluxDB are the documentation and performance, and the good plugins metrics in the ecosystem.""The most valuable features are aggregating the data and integration with Graphana for monitoring."

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Cons
"There could be more integration, and it could be more user-friendly.""The initial setup of Cassandra can be difficult in the configuration. There might be a need to have assistance. The implementation process can six months for connecting to certain databases.""Cassandra could be more user-friendly like MongoDB.""The solution is limited to a linear performance.""The solution doesn't have joins between tables so you need other tools for that.""Fine-tuning was a bit of a challenge.""The secondary index in Cassandra was a bit problematic and could be improved.""Maybe they can improve their performance in data fetching from a high volume of data sets."

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"The solution doesn't have much of a user interface.""InfluxDB cannot be used for high-cardinality data. It's also difficult and time-consuming to write queries, and there are some issues with bulk API.""InfluxDB can improve by including new metrics on other technologies. They had some changes recently to pool data from endpoints but the functionality is not good enough in the industry.""I've tried both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, and each has its limitations.""The error logging capability can be improved because the logs are not very informative.""The solution's UI can be more user-friendly.""In terms of features that I would like to see or have, in the community version, some features are not available. I would like to have clustering and authentication in the community version.""InfluxDB is generally stable, but we've encountered issues with the configuration file in our ticket stack. For instance, a mistake in one of the metrics out of a hundred KPIs can disrupt data collection for all KPIs. This happens because the agent stops working if there's an issue with any configuration part. To address this, it is essential to ensure that all configurations are part of the agent's EXE file when provided. This makes it easier to package the agent for server installation and ensures all KPIs are available from the server. Additionally, the agent cannot encrypt and decrypt passwords for authentication, which can be problematic when monitoring URLs or requiring authentication tokens. This requires additional scripting and can prolong service restart times."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Cassandra is a free open source solution, but there is a commercial version available called DataStax Enterprise."
  • "There are licensing fees that must be paid, but I'm not sure if they are paid monthly or yearly."
  • "We are using the open-source version of Cassandra, the solution is free."
  • "We pay for a license."
  • "I don't have the specific numbers on pricing, but it was fairly priced."
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  • "We are using the open-source version of InfluxDB."
  • "InfluxDB is open-source, but there are additional costs for scaling."
  • "InfluxDB recently increased its price. It is very expensive now."
  • "The tool is an open-source product."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:We can add almost one million columns to the solution.
    Top Answer:The application is open source, so we do not pay for it.
    Top Answer:The product is a NoSQL database. While working with it, we have to structure the table the way we want the query. We cannot get data from another table because, in Cassandra, we do not have any joins… more »
    Top Answer:The user interface is well-designed and easy to use. It provides a clear overview of the data, making it simple to understand the information at hand.
    Top Answer:There were concerns about data loss due to infrastructure limitations. We couldn't back up data locally if we were using the InfluxDB cloud, which was a major drawback. So, InfluxDB could improve its… more »
    Top Answer:Initially, we used Prometheus and Grafana for alerts. But, it wasn't feasible to handle logs and other types of databases. We then switched to InfluxDB due to its user interface, which allowed us to… more »
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    Overview

    Cassandra is a distributed and scalable database management system used for real-time data processing. 

    It is highly valued for its ability to handle large amounts of data, scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and flexible data model. 

    It is commonly used in finance, e-commerce, and social media industries.

    InfluxDB is open-source software that helps developers and enterprises alike to collect, store, process, and visualize time series data and to build next-generation applications. InfluxDB provides monitoring and insight on IoT, application, system, container, and infrastructure quickly and easily without complexities or compromises in scale, speed, or productivity.

    InfluxDB has become a popular insight system for unified metrics and events enabling the most demanding SLAs. InfluxDB is used in just about every type of industry across a wide range of use cases, including network monitoring, IoT monitoring, industrial IoT, and infrastructure and application monitoring.

    InfluxDB offers its users:

    • Infrastructure and application monitoring: Collect, process, and analyze real-time data from edge devices to help optimize distributed infrastructure. 
    • IoT monitoring and analytics: InfluxDB is designed to store large volumes of time series data and quickly perform real-time analysis on that data. Gain insights from all the sensor data and use the collected data to create and perform automated tasks. 
    • Network monitoring: Manage responsive and high-performing networks with widely distributed resources.

    InfluxDB Benefits

    There are several benefits to using InfluxDB . Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • APIs and ready toolset: InfluxDB can be accessed via a set of powerful tools enabling users to get started quickly, with less programming required. This includes a REST API, extensive client libraries, a wide variety of open-source integrations, and Flux - a functional data scripting language for querying, analysis, and events. The InfluxDB API can be used to write data from edge devices to the InfluxDB instance 
    • Time series engine: Get any data - events, logs, traces - from any edge device - systems, sensors, queues, databases, and networks. This data is stored in a powerful and high-performing engine capable of ingesting millions of data points per second.
    • Community: InfluxDB has a large community of cloud and open-source developers ready to assist users. 
    • Ready-made templates: Use InfluxDB Templates, a set of tools with a packager and other ready monitoring solutions. These tools allow users to share their monitoring expertise with coworkers and other community members around the world. The Templates gallery offers available templates for some of the most popular tools and applications.
    • Enhanced UI: InfluxDB’s UI includes an explorer, dashboarding tools, and a script editor. Use it to easily browse the collected metric and event data and apply common transformations. The dashboarding tool comes with a variety of visualization options that help users view insights from the data. The script editor assists users to quickly master Flux with easily accessible examples, auto-completion, and real-time syntax checking.

    Reviews from Real Users

    InfluxDB stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its flexible integration options and its data aggregation feature.

    Shalauddin Ahamad S., a software engineer at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features are aggregating the data and the integration with Grafana for monitoring.”

    Sample Customers
    1. Apple 2. Netflix 3. Facebook 4. Instagram 5. Twitter 6. eBay 7. Spotify 8. Uber 9. Airbnb 10. Adobe 11. Cisco 12. IBM 13. Microsoft 14. Yahoo 15. Reddit 16. Pinterest 17. Salesforce 18. LinkedIn 19. Hulu 20. Airbnb 21. Walmart 22. Target 23. Sony 24. Intel 25. Cisco 26. HP 27. Oracle 28. SAP 29. GE 30. Siemens 31. Volkswagen 32. Toyota
    ebay, AXA, Mozilla, DiDi, LeTV, Siminars, Cognito, ProcessOut, Recommend, CATS, Smarsh, Row 44, Clustree, Bleemeo
    Top Industries
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    Comms Service Provider29%
    Computer Software Company14%
    University14%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Educational Organization9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business35%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cassandra vs. InfluxDB
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cassandra vs. InfluxDB and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Cassandra is ranked 3rd in NoSQL Databases with 19 reviews while InfluxDB is ranked 4th in NoSQL Databases with 8 reviews. Cassandra is rated 8.0, while InfluxDB is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Cassandra writes "Well-equipped to handle a massive influx of data and billions of requests". On the other hand, the top reviewer of InfluxDB writes "A powerful, lightweight time series database with a simple query language and easy setup". Cassandra is most compared with Couchbase, MongoDB, ScyllaDB, Oracle NoSQL and Neo4j Graph Database, whereas InfluxDB is most compared with MongoDB, Netdata, ScyllaDB, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and Couchbase. See our Cassandra vs. InfluxDB report.

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