它不支持跨 表。 不支持二级索引。 二级索引必须依赖Elastic search /Solr，并且必须编写自定义同步组件。 非ACID兼容系统。 查询支持有限。

除了上面给出的关于何时使用和何时不使用Cassandra的答案外，如果你决定使用Cassandra，你可能会考虑不使用Cassandra本身，而是使用它的众多表亲之一。

上面的一些答案已经指出了各种“NoSQL”系统，它们与Cassandra有许多相同的属性，有一些或大或小的差异，并且可能比Cassandra本身更适合您的特定需求。

Additionally, recently (several years after this question was originally asked), a Cassandra clone called Scylla (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla_(database)) was released. Scylla is an open-source re-implementation of Cassandra in C++, which claims to have significantly higher throughput and lower latencies than the original Java Cassandra, while being mostly compatible with it (in features, APIs, and file formats). So if you're already considering Cassandra, you may want to consider Scylla as well.

another situation that makes the choice easier is when you want to use aggregate function like sum, min, max, etcetera and complex queries (like in the financial system mentioned above) then a relational database is probably more convenient then a nosql database since both are not possible on a nosql databse unless you use really a lot of Inverted indexes. When you do use nosql you would have to do the aggregate functions in code or store them seperatly in its own columnfamily but this makes it all quite complex and reduces the performance that you gained by using nosql.

NoSQL的一般思想是，您应该使用最适合您的应用程序的数据存储。如果您有一个财务数据表，请使用SQL。如果您的对象需要复杂/缓慢的查询才能映射到关系模式，请使用对象或键/值存储。

当然，你遇到的任何现实问题都处于这两个极端之间，没有一个解决方案是完美的。您需要考虑每个存储的功能以及使用其中一个的后果，这将非常具体于您试图解决的问题。

没有什么是银弹，任何东西都是为了解决特定的问题而构建的，有自己的优点和缺点。这取决于你，你有什么问题陈述，什么是该问题的最佳解决方案。

我会按照你问的顺序一个一个地回答你的问题。因为Cassandra是基于NoSQL数据库家族的，所以在我回答你的问题之前，理解为什么使用NoSQL数据库是很重要的。

为什么使用NoSQL

In the case of RDBMS, making a choice is quite easy because all the databases like MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL in this category offer almost the same kind of solutions oriented toward ACID properties. When it comes to NoSQL, the decision becomes difficult because every NoSQL database offers different solutions and you have to understand which one is best suited for your app/system requirements. For example, MongoDB is fit for use cases where your system demands a schema-less document store. HBase might be fit for search engines, analyzing log data, or any place where scanning huge, two-dimensional join-less tables is a requirement. Redis is built to provide In-Memory search for varieties of data structures like trees, queues, linked lists, etc and can be a good fit for making real-time leaderboards, pub-sub kind of system. Similarly there are other databases in this category (Including Cassandra) which are fit for different problem statements. Now lets move to the original questions, and answer them one by one.

何时使用卡桑德拉

Being a part of the NoSQL family, Cassandra offers a solution for problems where one of your requirements is to have a very heavy write system and you want to have a quite responsive reporting system on top of that stored data. Consider the use case of Web analytics where log data is stored for each request and you want to built an analytical platform around it to count hits per hour, by browser, by IP, etc in a real time manner. You can refer to this blog post to understand more about the use cases where Cassandra fits in.

什么时候使用RDMS而不是Cassandra

Cassandra基于NoSQL数据库，不提供ACID和关系数据属性。如果您对ACID属性有强烈的需求(例如财务数据)，Cassandra将不适合这种情况。显然，您可以为此制定一个变通方案，但是您最终将编写大量的应用程序代码来模拟ACID属性，并将严重延误上市时间。同时，使用Cassandra管理这种系统对您来说也是复杂而乏味的。

什么时候不用卡桑德拉

我认为上面的解释是否有意义不需要回答。

它不支持跨 表。 不支持二级索引。 二级索引必须依赖Elastic search /Solr，并且必须编写自定义同步组件。 非ACID兼容系统。 查询支持有限。