2024 User Survey Results
1. What Use Case(s) are you using Cassandra for today?
Total responses: 140
![What Use Case(s) are you using Cassandra for today?](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/000_What_Use_Case(s)_are_you_using.png)
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Everything
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Chat Application
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Multi-tenant tables for SaaS applicwtion
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I haven’t used it before so I’m learning all about it!
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Request Management System
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primary datastore of multiple large online services
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Internal service discovery application
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Video games!
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Maintaining and contributing to the Cassandra project
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All of the above
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Generally used for storing application data
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Financial
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Online charging
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Customer 360
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API Management
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business intelligence
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entitlements
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game stats
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game saves
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Web profiles
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Genomic Data Storage Collection: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenBank
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Full text search using Solr on top of Cassandra
2. What Use Case(s) are you planning to use Cassandra for in the future?
Total responses: 140
![What Use Case(s) are you planning to use Cassandra for in the future?](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/001_What_Use_Case(s)_are_you_plann.png)
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Keep adding features
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Request Management Workflow
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for all )
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using cassandra as a general purpose database for further products…
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well
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More games!
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Everything
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All of the above
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Not yet
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More of the same above.
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Financial data analytics
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No other cases planned
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Online charging
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I’m not sure yet but I’m cooking up ideas of what I could use it for in my personal projects or future employers!
3. What was your primary reason for choosing Cassandra over other databases?
Total responses: 139
![What was your primary reason for choosing Cassandra over other databases?](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/002_What_was_your_primary_reason_f.png)
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Big data management
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Availability *
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High availability
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write performance
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Data structure
12. What programming languages do you use to connect to Cassandra?
Total responses: 138
![What programming languages do you use to connect to Cassandra?](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/011_What_programming_languages_do_.png)
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Angular 17
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Kotlin
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Ruby
15. What features of Apache Cassandra do you use the most?
Total responses: 134
![What features of Apache Cassandra do you use the most?](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/015_What_features_of_Apache_Cassan.png)
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DSE Search
16. Have you integrated Apache Cassandra with other technologies? If so, which ones?
Total responses: 112
![Have you integrated Apache Cassandra with other technologies? If so](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/Have_you_integrated_cassandra.jpeg)
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Lucene inddex plugin
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DSE Search
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No
18. If planning a change, how will you deploy and manage your Cassandra clusters?
Total responses: 103
![If planning a change](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/018_If_planning_a_change,_how_will.png)
20. Current trends: Do you currently have Generative AI use cases in your apps in production?
Total responses: 130
![Current trends: Do you currently have Generative AI use cases in your apps in production?](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/020_Current_trends_Do_you_current.png)
22. If you are considering no longer using Cassandra in the future, what are the reasons?
Total responses: 56
![If you are considering no longer using Cassandra in the future](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/022_If_you_are_considering_no_long.png)
23. If running an older version of Cassandra, what timeframe do you have for upgrading to the next major version?
Total responses: 120
![If running an older version of Cassandra](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/023_If_running_an_older_version_of.png)
24. What percentage of your C* workloads will you be migrating to the cloud in the next 12 months?
Total responses: 119
![What percentage of your C* workloads will you be migrating to the cloud in the next 12 months?](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/024_What_percentage_of_your_C*_wor.png)
25. What proposed features are you most interested in the upcoming versions? (Details here)
Total responses: 123
![What proposed features are you most interested in the upcoming versions? (Details here)](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/025_What_proposed_features_are_you.png)
26. Which of these most closely matches your job description?
Total responses: 136
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data engineer
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IT Consultant
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Full stack
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Executive
28. Have you used Cassandra’s community forums, such as the Cassandra mailing list or Stack Overflow? If so, how was your experience?
![Have you used Cassandra’s community forums](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/028_Have_you_used_Cassandra's_comm.png)
31. Which of the following methods do you use to keep up to date on Cassandra?
Total responses: 131
![Which of the following methods do you use to keep up to date on Cassandra?](../_images/blog/2024_survey_images/031_Which_of_the_following_methods.png)
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source code
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GitHub - PRs and after that test features by my self
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Twitter/LinkedIn
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PMC / Committer
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Mailing List
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mailing list
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Source code
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easy-cass-lab
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Datastax
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Jira/github