1 category · RankedApache Cassandra
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NoSQL databases | Data platform | 0% | 12 of 72 | 30% | 43 | criticized challenger |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Massive write-heavy, linearly scalable big data → Cassandra” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NoSQL · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you need high scalability and can handle more operational complexity, Apache Cassandra or ScyllaDB are excellent choices.” Mistral Small · NoSQL · budget prompt · alternative
“If you have technical capacity to self-host and want to control long-term costs, go with Apache Cassandra or CouchDB.” Kimi K2 · NoSQL · budget prompt · alternative
“Cassandra (DataStax Astra) | Best for write-heavy distributed workloads, but higher operational complexity.” Kimi K2 · NoSQL · scale prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“it's *extremely* easy to misuse... If you don't have a genuine write-heavy, massive-scale, multi-datacenter requirement, Cassandra is overkill.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative
“While highly scalable, it defaults to eventual consistency, which can cause issues for applications requiring strong consistency” Mistral Small · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative
“For a mid-market B2B company, they are usually "overkill" and require too much specialized engineering maintenance.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NoSQL · direct prompt · soft negative
“more operational complexity and limited query flexibility. Probably overkill for most mid-market workloads.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NoSQL · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 84 of the 115 answers that named Apache Cassandra and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
266 of the 266 domain citations in answers naming Apache Cassandra came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Apache Cassandra
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