It's all about the tradeoffs you are taking. Cassandra favors availability over consistency. For many workloads that is desired for others it is not. HBase for

It's all about the tradeoffs you are taking. Cassandra favors availability over consistency. For many workloads that is desired for others it is not. HBase for example is always consistent, but if you lose a node unexpectedly some data is not available for some time.