From my perspective, and not an expert on cassandra, but: -- Conceptually more straightforward for engineers, thus less code complexity and less bugs (and the c

From my perspective, and not an expert on cassandra, but: -- Conceptually more straightforward for engineers, thus less code complexity and less bugs (and the cost of maybe less performance. I'll spend dollars on more nodes over dollars to deal with engineering complexity.) -- Operationally cassandra sounds like a PITA. I haven't run it, so I could be misinformed. -- Engineering philosophy. The Basho style is more in line with my style than the people behind cassandra. The priorities and emphasizes are different.