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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.
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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
They provide great support for a difficult product.
What do you like best about the product?
They offer support on Cassandra which is difficult to install and maintain.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their installer is command run instead of using traditional Unix packages.
They don't natively support Amazon Linux.
They don't natively support Amazon Linux.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Support Cassandra.
DSE an acceptible product with high maintenance overhead
What do you like best about the product?
The all in one integration between Cassandra, Solr, and Spark makes it simple to use together. Once installed, configuring them for basic out of the box functionality is completed by just enabling each one in a file. Once you get into the Ops Center and maintaining a production cluster, it starts to get more complicated. However, the DataStax academy provides the information needed to start more advanced configurations and implementations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Maintaining a production cluster is very time consuming, requiring a full time resource just to manage this application for a larger system. The cloud resources needed to support this are pretty large. It's almost a wash compared to cloud native services. Beyond the generic training videos and programs, the extended support and training is a lot of extra effort to get spun up and covered.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DataStax Enterprise solution provides a great backend data layer to our microservices in the cloud. Inventory search and the speed at which results are returned means this can be used for bot functions and other AI capabilities.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you have the experience on staff to support this application moving forward. Without at least one experienced resource who has some combination of NoSQL solutions, search understanding, and basic AI capabilities, you will likely have to train a resource 6-8 months just to be comfortable with the product.
Fast, reliable
What do you like best about the product?
Mature, scalable data store, with good support
What do you dislike about the product?
LWT becomes very slow under high concurrency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High availability in multiple data centers
Market Leader
What do you like best about the product?
Datastax offers so much as a managed Cassandra platform, and they've emerged as the primarily leader in this space. The training materials and documentation alone are awesome contributions. Datastax has contributed so much to the open source tooling, and their technical blog rocks. Datastax Enterprise is really what you're looking for and should really consider when starting up a cloud app with Cassandra. The integrations with Spark, Opscenter, and Hadoop are what makes Datastax Enterprise worth it, not to mention the service level.
What do you dislike about the product?
I compare Datastax to Cloudera, and there's so much more that they can be doing in terms of educational materials.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking to build scalable, client-facing APIs, and Cassandra worked well in our implementation. Datastax really completed the picture.
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