Side by side
Amazon Keyspaces vs Apache Cassandra
Both stand on wide-column databases. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
Free plan APIWeb
Amazon Keyspaces combines Cassandra compatibility with managed, serverless capacity options and recovery features. Check the free-tier window and 1 MB maximum row size against your workload.
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Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3
Cassandra offers a distributed, self-managed database with multiple deployment options and tunable consistency. The project identifies 5.0 as its latest GA version and says it is maintained until the 8.0 release.
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| Amazon Keyspaces | Apache Cassandra | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Not published | Yes |
| Runs on | API, Web | API, Linux, Mac, Self-hosted, Web, Windows |
| Lowest paid plan | Free or on request | Free or on request |
| Plans published | 6 | 1 |
| Maker | Not published | Apache Cassandra |
| Website | aws.amazon.com | cassandra.apache.org |
| On wide-column databases | #4 of 22 | #1 of 22 |
Amazon Keyspaces: what it does well
- Supports Cassandra APIs, code, drivers, and tools
- Offers on-demand and provisioned capacity modes
- Point-in-time recovery covers the preceding 35 days
- Encrypts stored data by default
What to know first
- Free tier lasts only three months
- Free tier is limited to one per payer account
- Maximum row size is 1 MB
Apache Cassandra: what it does well
- Masterless architecture gives nodes equal functionality
- Replication across multiple data centers
- Tunable query consistency
- Drivers for Java, Go, Python, and Node.js
- Supports horizontal scaling
What to know first
- Self-managed database
- Third-party ecosystem projects are not supported by the Cassandra community
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