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Apache Cassandra

147Judge labels
2First choices
55Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in NoSQL for enterprise buyers
Rank 10 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 52 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Apache Cassandra →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In nosql · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Apache Cassandra for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
NoSQL databasesData platform0%10 of 7317%52accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Time series databasesData platform0%53 of 6667%3under 10 labels · led by TimescaleDB at 63%
Telemetry pipelinesIT operations and endpoint0%115 of 124100%1under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37%

Movement

Since September 2026, Apache Cassandra held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · NoSQL · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 44 → 59 of 59
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 12 → 10 of 69
Enterprise▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 12 → 5 of 53

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
NoSQL0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 12 → 10 of 73
Time series DBs0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 53 of 66, unchanged
Telemetry pipelines0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 115 of 124, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Apache Cassandra across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.502305
GPT-5.4 mini02204
Gemini 3.5 Flash01124
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.2002125
Mistral Small02103
DeepSeek V4 Flash03014
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash11237
Kimi K202114
GLM 4.7 FlashX02215
MiniMax M2.501203
GPT-6 Luna01113
Muse Glimmer 30B03216

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct23 labels1
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative31 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained22 labels1
Scale-constrained26 labelsNone
Negative44 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative147 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Wide-Column Stores (Column-Family) Top Example: Apache Cassandra” Qwen 3.7 Flash · NoSQL · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you need massive write-heavy, globally distributed workloads on cheap commodity nodes: Apache Cassandra / ScyllaDB open source.” Muse Glimmer 30B · NoSQL · budget prompt · alternative
“Cassandra / DataStax Astra — Best for massive write-heavy, multi-datacenter distributed workloads” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NoSQL · scale prompt · alternative
“Best for flexible, scalable cloud-native setups: Apache Cassandra ... more complex to operate” GPT-5.4 mini · NoSQL · budget 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.

“"JSON Dumping" into NoSQL (MongoDB/Cassandra)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Telemetry pipelines · negative prompt · hard negative
“No built-in auth/encryption in older releases; relies on manual config. Vulnerable to unauthorized access if not tuned.” Grok 4.20 · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative
“versions from 2012-2013 (0.8.x - 1.x) are ancient... ensure it is upgraded to at least version 4.0 or 5.0” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative
“Cassandra is a row-store optimized for writes, not columns... you are fighting the grain of the database.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Time series DBs · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Apache Cassandra, over the 147 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apache Cassandra was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
MongoDB132 of 14762Not among the top eight
Amazon DynamoDB106 of 14710Not among the top eight
Redis99 of 1472Not among the top eight
Couchbase74 of 1472Not among the top eight
Neo4j57 of 1470Not among the top eight
Azure Cosmos DB47 of 1474Not among the top eight
ScyllaDB44 of 1471Not among the top eight
PostgreSQL32 of 1479Not among the top eight
Apache HBase28 of 1470Not among the top eight
Apache CouchDB25 of 1470Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Apache Cassandra. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 116 of the 147 answers that named Apache Cassandra and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com52
thectoclub.com47
mongodb.com39
peerspot.com32
aerospike.com31
us.fitgap.com30
dnsstuff.com27
instaclustr.com26
pingcap.com26
daily.dev25

335 of the 335 domain citations in answers naming Apache Cassandra came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

apache.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Apache Cassandra takes 0% of first choices and MongoDB takes 74%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “nosql database”
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not in the top ten
Position for “nosql databases”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
1,300 a month (“apache cassandra”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
165 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 1,144,025 a month
Searches its site ranks for
44,247 · 10,306 in the top three
Sites linking to it
174,267
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
1 ads · 1 text · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown March 2025, as GridGain Systems, verified. 1 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 10 of 73 in nosql
Segment leader
74%
MongoDB
First choices
2 across its categories
Named in
147 answers
Its own site cited
in 116 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on apache.org
2,858
subdomains included
Content
1,384
counted in the table below
Documentation
375
Product · Integration
16 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
News or press1,081122026-09-03
Blog22812026-07-01
Template or tool38undated
Report or ebook14undated
Conference or event1002026-06-09
Glossary or explainer9undated
Case study2undated
Webinar or virtual event2undated
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page apache.org exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Apache Cassandra

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Apache Cassandra; a claim can dispute any of them.
Cassandra 28Apache Cassandra (or managed like DataStax Astra) 1Cassandra / Apache Cassandra 1Cassandra / Keyspaces 1

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