DataStax

What do you like best?

The quality of the product is really good, it really goes beyond the open source Apache Cassandra.

What do you dislike?

The quality of the support, from time to time we had issues lasting for more than a year (sic), or every time we had to explain our setup to the support representative as they had no clue about our company and our background.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

They have a good product and a huge experience with multiple different customers from different business domains. They are also offering now a flavor based on the open source version that might help people or organizations with specific needs, or afraid of lock-in, which is great.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We manage to provide a platform as a service to multiple different development teams. DataStax came into the play because no one had the knowledge on distributed databases at scale so their participation was paramount to the kickoff of the project.