🆚 Bigtable vs. Cassandra

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Cassandra is twice as popular as Bigtable.
🌍 Cassandra is more popular in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌎 Bigtable is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.

Bigtable

Cassandra

Type

Database technology

About

Bigtable is a low-latency, high-throughput NoSQL and key-value database.

Apache Cassandra is an open-source, highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

cassandra.apache.org

Pricing

Free version ❌

Compute capacity$0.65/node/hour

Data storageSSD$0.17/GB/month
HDD$0.026/GB/month

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Cassandra database technology is 1.6 times more popular than Bigtable.

Total websites

Market share

Databases

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Cassandra is more popular in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Bigtable is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.

United States

Switzerland

Germany

Sweden

Japan

United Kingdom

Australia

Austria

Canada

Hong Kong

Awards

🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the Databases category.

🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the Databases category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Cassandra is more popular among sites focused on auctions and classifieds, personal network storage, and software and hardware, while Bigtable is more commonly used on Internet services, business, and finance and banking sites.

Auctions/Classifieds

Internet Services

Business

Finance/Banking

Streaming Media

Personal Network Storage

Software/Hardware

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Interactive Web Applications