# Apache Cassandra vs RavenDB

**Leader by Vioscale score:** RavenDB

| Attribute | Apache Cassandra | RavenDB |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 44.8 (40% (low)) | 56.1 (63% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 1 |
| adoption.github_stars | 10,081 | 3,993 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 26,043 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":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. | RavenDB is a document database that automatically optimizes indexes and queries without manual configuration. It provides ACID transactions across clusters, master-master replication for high availability, and can be deployed in cloud, on-premises, or edge environments. |
| 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"}` | `{"schema":"optional_schema","hosting":"both","data_model":"document","ttl_expiry":true,"replication":"active_active","partitioning":"automatic","transactions":"multi_item_acid","vector_search":true,"change_streams":true,"secondary_indexes":"yes"}` |
| integrations.count | 19 | 20 |
| 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":"SQL Server"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Amazon SQS"},{"name":"Azure Queue Storage"},{"name":"Azure Service Bus"},{"name":"Power BI"},{"name":"Akka.NET"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"NLog"},{"name":"Zabbix"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"PTRG"},{"name":"Telegraf"},{"name":"Grafana"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | C# |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cassandra.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:07:28.314Z"}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | open_source | - |
| pricing.price_level | free | - |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.5","date":"2026-07-22T09:59:18Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.11","date":"2026-07-22T08:56:33Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.18","date":"2026-07-22T07:42:02Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.4","date":"2026-06-16T09:21:38Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.10","date":"2026-06-16T07:46:49Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.17","date":"2026-06-16T06:33:13Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.3","date":"2026-06-09T12:45:09Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.9","date":"2026-06-09T09:42:35Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.16","date":"2026-06-09T08:15:07Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.2","date":"2026-04-28T11:13:59Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.8","date":"2026-04-28T10:32:43Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.15","date":"2026-04-28T09:56:00Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.1","date":"2026-03-17T12:58:08Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.7","date":"2026-03-17T12:07:58Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.14","date":"2026-03-17T11:10:42Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/5.4.214","date":"2026-02-23T14:01:21Z","type":"stable","version":"5.4.214"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.0","date":"2026-02-02T14:40:19Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.6","date":"2026-02-02T11:17:58Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.13","date":"2026-02-02T10:25:03Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.5","date":"2025-12-22T13:20:18Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.5"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 4.8 | 5.1 |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| 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=rubygems&package_name=ravendb&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (NoSQL Databases)

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

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:03:22.031Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*