G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon ElastiCache vs. Cassandra

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon ElastiCache

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cassandra

by The Apache Software Foundation

Overall rating4.54.1
Review count8835
Ease of use9.18.1
Ease of setup8.98.5
Quality of support8.87.9
Meets requirements9.38.6
NPS70.23809533.333333
Small Business34.1%17.1%
Mid-Market33.0%34.3%
Enterprise33.0%48.6%
Total page views23479
Total LLM citations700136

Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory data store and cache in the cloud. Often working in conjunction with other AWS database and storage services, ElastiCache ensures modern applications meet real-time requirements for high data throughput and sub-milli second response times, while serving millions of simultaneous requests. Amazon ElastiCache supports two open-source in-memory engines: o Redis - a fast, open source, in-memory data store and cache.

Pros

  • Speed
  • Cost Efficiency
  • Low Latency
  • Customer Support
  • Performance Efficiency
  • Performance

Cassandra

Cassandra's data model offers the convenience of column indexes with the performance of log-structured updates, strong support for denormalization and materialized views, and powerful built-in caching.

Pros