2024 User Survey Results

1. What Use Case(s) are you using Cassandra for today?

Total responses: 140

What Use Case(s) are you using Cassandra for today?
Responses that appeared once:

  • Everything

  • Chat Application

  • Multi-tenant tables for SaaS applicwtion

  • I haven’t used it before so I’m learning all about it!

  • Request Management System

  • primary datastore of multiple large online services

  • Internal service discovery application

  • Video games!

  • Maintaining and contributing to the Cassandra project

  • All of the above

  • Generally used for storing application data

  • Financial

  • Online charging

  • Customer 360

  • API Management

  • business intelligence

  • entitlements

  • game stats

  • game saves

  • Web profiles

  • Genomic Data Storage Collection: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenBank

  • Full text search using Solr on top of Cassandra

2. What Use Case(s) are you planning to use Cassandra for in the future?

Total responses: 140

What Use Case(s) are you planning to use Cassandra for in the future?
Responses that appeared once:

  • Keep adding features

  • Request Management Workflow

  • for all )

  • using cassandra as a general purpose database for further products…​

  • well

  • More games!

  • Everything

  • All of the above

  • Not yet

  • More of the same above.

  • Financial data analytics

  • No other cases planned

  • Online charging

  • I’m not sure yet but I’m cooking up ideas of what I could use it for in my personal projects or future employers!

3. What was your primary reason for choosing Cassandra over other databases?

Total responses: 139

What was your primary reason for choosing Cassandra over other databases?
Responses that appeared once:

  • Big data management

  • Availability *

  • High availability

  • write performance

  • Data structure

4. How would you rate your overall experience with Apache Cassandra on a scale of 1-10?

How would you rate your overall experience with Apache Cassandra on a scale of 1-10?

Total responses: 140

Have you recommended Apache Cassandra to others?

6. How do you run Cassandra today?

Total responses: 138

How do you run Cassandra today?

7. If self-managed, where do you run Cassandra?

Total responses: 134

If self-managed

8. If planning a change, where will you run Cassandra?

Total responses: 105

If planning a change

9. Which version of Cassandra are you using?

Total responses: 137

Which version of Cassandra are you using?

10. What is your approximate total data volume?

Total responses: 135

What is your approximate total data volume?

11. How large is your C* deployment?

Total responses: 136

How large is your C* deployment?

12. What programming languages do you use to connect to Cassandra?

Total responses: 138

What programming languages do you use to connect to Cassandra?
Responses that appeared once:

  • Angular 17

  • Kotlin

  • Ruby

13. How does Cassandra fit into your overall data management strategy?

Total responses: 135

How does Cassandra fit into your overall data management strategy?

14. What’s the longest continuous service you’ve had on any cluster? (years-months)

What’s the longest continuous service you’ve had on any cluster? (years-months)

15. What features of Apache Cassandra do you use the most?

Total responses: 134

What features of Apache Cassandra do you use the most?
Responses that appeared once:

  • DSE Search

16. Have you integrated Apache Cassandra with other technologies? If so, which ones?

Total responses: 112

Have you integrated Apache Cassandra with other technologies? If so
Responses that appeared once:

  • Lucene inddex plugin

  • DSE Search

  • No

17. If self-managed, how do you deploy and manage your Cassandra clusters?

Total responses: 132

If self-managed

18. If planning a change, how will you deploy and manage your Cassandra clusters?

Total responses: 103

If planning a change

Total responses: 130

Current trends: Are you using Apache Cassandra for Generative AI Apps?

Total responses: 130

Current trends: Do you currently have Generative AI use cases in your apps in production?

21. How likely are you to continue using Apache Cassandra in the future?

How likely are you to continue using Apache Cassandra in the future?

22. If you are considering no longer using Cassandra in the future, what are the reasons?

Total responses: 56

If you are considering no longer using Cassandra in the future

23. If running an older version of Cassandra, what timeframe do you have for upgrading to the next major version?

Total responses: 120

If running an older version of Cassandra

24. What percentage of your C* workloads will you be migrating to the cloud in the next 12 months?

Total responses: 119

What percentage of your C* workloads will you be migrating to the cloud in the next 12 months?

25. What proposed features are you most interested in the upcoming versions? (Details here)

Total responses: 123

What proposed features are you most interested in the upcoming versions? (Details here)

26. Which of these most closely matches your job description?

Total responses: 136

Which of these most closely matches your job description?
Responses that appeared once:

  • data engineer

  • IT Consultant

  • Full stack

  • Executive

27. How long have you been using Cassandra?

Total responses: 136

How long have you been using Cassandra?

28. Have you used Cassandra’s community forums, such as the Cassandra mailing list or Stack Overflow? If so, how was your experience?

Have you used Cassandra’s community forums

29. Where do you prefer to connect with others in the Cassandra community?

Total responses: 129

Where do you prefer to connect with others in the Cassandra community?

30. How easy or difficult was it for you to learn how to use Cassandra?

How easy or difficult was it for you to learn how to use Cassandra?

31. Which of the following methods do you use to keep up to date on Cassandra?

Total responses: 131

Which of the following methods do you use to keep up to date on Cassandra?
Responses that appeared once:

  • source code

  • GitHub - PRs and after that test features by my self

  • Twitter/LinkedIn

  • PMC / Committer

  • Mailing List

  • mailing list

  • Source code

  • easy-cass-lab

  • Datastax

  • Jira/github

32. How would you rate the documentation and resources available for Cassandra?

How would you rate the documentation and resources available for Cassandra?