# Apache Cassandra vs Apache HBase

| Attribute | Apache Cassandra | Apache HBase |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 44.8 (40% (low)) | 46.1 (45% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 35 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 1 |
| adoption.github_stars | 10,081 | 5,552 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 120 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source, distributed NoSQL database that automatically scales across commodity hardware and cloud infrastructure, providing high availability and fault tolerance with no single points of failure and multi-datacenter replication support. | An open-source, distributed database built on Hadoop that stores billions of rows with millions of columns, designed for real-time access and extreme scalability. |
| features.capabilities | `{"schema":"enforced","hosting":"both","data_model":"wide_column","consistency":"tunable","replication":"leaderless","multi_region":true,"partitioning":"automatic","transactions":"single_item","license_class":"permissive","query_language":"cql","secondary_indexes":"yes"}` | `{"hosting":"self","data_model":"wide_column","consistency":"strong","partitioning":"automatic","license_class":"permissive"}` |
| integrations.count | 19 | 3 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon Keyspaces"},{"name":"Azure Cosmos DB"},{"name":"Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra"},{"name":"DataStax Astra"},{"name":"Elassandra"},{"name":"Instaclustr"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"DataStax Studio"},{"name":"AxonOps"},{"name":"Cassandra Lucene Index"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"DbVisualizer"},{"name":"Apache Ignite"},{"name":"Ansible"},{"name":"Lagom"},{"name":"EmoDB"},{"name":"FiloDB"},{"name":"CQLAI"}]` | `[{"name":"Spark"},{"name":"MapReduce"},{"name":"Thrift"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | Java |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"linux":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cassandra.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:07:28.314Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://hbase.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:05:03.633Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| release.cadence_days | - | 59 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/3.0.0","date":"2026-08-06T02:06:26Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/3.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/3.0.0-beta-2","date":"2026-07-17T03:48:54Z","type":"prerelease","version":"rel/3.0.0-beta-2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.6.5","date":"2026-04-27T13:29:22Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.6.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.5.14","date":"2026-04-27T13:28:40Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.5.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.6.4","date":"2025-11-15T15:32:50Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.6.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.5.13","date":"2025-11-15T15:31:36Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.5.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.5.12","date":"2025-10-07T09:58:53Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.5.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.6.3","date":"2025-07-15T14:01:26Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.6.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.5.11","date":"2025-03-30T13:46:17Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.5.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.6.2","date":"2025-02-25T01:48:37Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.6.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.6.1","date":"2024-10-19T08:22:27Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.5.10","date":"2024-07-26T08:49:38Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.5.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.5.9","date":"2024-07-18T01:03:02Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.5.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.4.18","date":"2024-05-25T15:09:33Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.4.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.6.0","date":"2024-05-25T10:32:11Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.5.8","date":"2024-03-21T03:20:41Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.5.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/3.0.0-beta-1","date":"2024-01-21T12:58:23Z","type":"prerelease","version":"rel/3.0.0-beta-1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.5.7","date":"2024-01-10T13:55:12Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.5.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.5.6","date":"2023-10-25T06:43:45Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.5.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hbase/releases/tag/rel/2.5.5","date":"2023-06-19T13:57:53Z","type":"stable","version":"rel/2.5.5"}]` |
| security.scorecard | 4.8 | 7 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fapache%2Fcassandra&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.hbasene%3Ahbase-core&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (NoSQL Databases)

| Capability | Apache Cassandra | Apache HBase |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Data model | Wide-column | Wide-column |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query language | CQL | - |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | Tunable | Strong |
| **Transactions** |  |  |
| Transactions | Single-item | - |
| **Indexing** |  |  |
| Secondary indexes | Yes | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Partitioning / sharding | Automatic | Automatic |
| Multi-region | ✓ | - |
| **Replication** |  |  |
| Replication topology | Leaderless | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Self-hosted only |
| **Schema** |  |  |
| Schema | Enforced | - |
| **Features** |  |  |
| TTL / auto-expiry | - | - |
| Change streams / CDC | - | - |
| Vector / search built-in | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:59:45.520Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*