Apache Parquet vs Apache Cassandra

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Apache Parquet		Apache Cassandra
	Project
4	Mentions	35
2,407	Stars	8,510
2.9%	Growth	0.9%
9.2	Activity	9.9
3 days ago	Latest Commit	1 day ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Apache Parquet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache Parquet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-11.

How-to-Guide: Contributing to Open Source
19 projects | /r/dataengineering | 11 Jun 2022

Apache Parquet
parquet-tools
3 projects | /r/golang | 23 Jan 2022

This go implementation, other than common advantages from go itself (small single executable, support multiple platforms, speed, etc.), has some neat features compare with Java parquet tool and Python one like:
Writing Apache Parquet Files
2 projects | /r/androiddev | 30 May 2021

Hi, I've been trying to write parquet files on android for the past couple of days, and have really been struggling to find a solution. My original hypothesis was to just use the java parquet implementation (https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr), but I've since realized that not all java libraries play well with Android. I've gone through essentially dependency hell trying to franken-fit the library into my project, and imported as much as i could before hitting walls such as this one (https://github.com/mockito/mockito/issues/841).
pqrs: A parquet-tools replacement in Rust using Apache Arrow
2 projects | /r/dataengineering | 18 Feb 2021

Like many of you probably do, I tend to work with Parquet files a lot. parquet-tools has been my tool of choice for inspecting parquet files, but that has been deprecated recently. So, I created a replacement for it using Rust and Apache Arrow.

Apache Cassandra

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache Cassandra. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-23.

How to Choose the Right MQTT Data Storage for Your Next Project
8 projects | dev.to | 23 Jul 2023

Apache Cassandra{:target="_blank"} is a highly scalable and fault-tolerant database that can handle large volumes of data across multiple nodes or clusters. It provides fast read and write operations, making it suitable for real-time analytics or applications with high throughput requirements.
10+ Open-Source Projects For Web Developers In 2023
14 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2023
Database 101: Data Consistency for Beginners
7 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2023

Wide Column: Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB and DynamoDB
In One Minute : Hadoop
10 projects | dev.to | 21 Nov 2022

Cassandra, a replicated, fault-tolerant, decentralized and scalable database system.
Build Your First App with JavaScript, Node.js, and DataStax Astra DB
2 projects | dev.to | 25 Oct 2022

A popular database you might already be familiar with is Apache Cassandra®, which powers high-performing applications for thousands of companies including Hulu, Netflix, Spotify, and Apple. While this free, open-source database is known for its high availability, scalability, and resilience; the downside is that it’s also notoriously complex to set up and manage.
Reducing logging cost by two orders of magnitude using CLP
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2022
Baeldung Series Part 2: Build a Dashboard With Cassandra, Astra and CQL – Mapping Event Data
2 projects | dev.to | 13 Sep 2022

In our previous article, we looked at augmenting our dashboard to store and display individual events from the Avengers using DataStax Astra, a serverless DBaaS powered by Apache Cassandra using Stargate to offer additional APIs for working with it.
System Design: CAP theorem
3 projects | dev.to | 8 Sep 2022

Example: Apache Cassandra, CouchDB.
Deploy a TikTok Clone with Node.js, Netlify, and DataStax Astra DB
3 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2022

For our TikTok database, we’re using DataStax Astra DB: a cloud-based database that fully manages Apache Cassandra®, one of the most robust and scalable NoSQL databases around.
System Design: The complete course
31 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2022

Data partitioning in Apache Cassandra.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Apache Parquet and Apache Cassandra you can also consider the following projects:

Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

Druid - Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.

Apache Thrift - Apache Thrift

LevelDB - LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.

Apache Avro - Apache Avro is a data serialization system.

Scylla - NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra

Apache Orc - Apache ORC - the smallest, fastest columnar storage for Hadoop workloads

delta - An open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, and Hive and APIs

Big Queue - A big, fast and persistent queue based on memory mapped file.

Apache HBase - Apache HBase

Wire - gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift and Java.

Event Store - EventStoreDB, the event-native database. Designed for Event Sourcing, Event-Driven, and Microservices architectures