NoSQL is not just hype, or a young technology; it is an alternative, with known limitations and capabilities. It is not an RDBMS killer. It's more like a younger brother who is slowly growing up and taking some of the burden. Acceptance is increasing and it will be even better as NoSQL solutions mature. Skepticism may be justified, but only for concrete reasons.
Since Cassandra is an easy and free working environment, suitable for application development, we recommended it, especially with additional utilities that ease and accelerate database administration.
Cassandra has some faults (for example, user authentication and authorization are still insufficiently supported in Windows environments) and should preferably be used when there is a need to store large amounts of data.
For start-up companies that need to manipulate large amounts of data with the aim of costs reduction, implementing Cassandra in a Linux environment is a must-have.
In the next chapter, we will explore Kafka, an...
