Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra comparisons

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Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra vs each of them

#	Tool	Free plan	Paid from	Deployment model	Query interface	Consistency controls	Multi-region support	Horizontal scaling	Score
3	Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra	Yes	—	Managed	Cql	Configurable	Yes	Yes	8.8
1	Apache Cassandra	—	None	Self_hosted	Cql	Tunable	Yes	Yes	—
2	Google Cloud Bigtable	No	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.6
4	Alibaba Cloud Lindorm	—	—	Managed	Multiple	Configurable	Yes	Yes	—
5	Alibaba Cloud Tablestore	—	—	Managed	Multiple	Configurable	Yes	Yes	7.0
6	Apache HBase	Yes	None	Self_hosted	Multiple	Configurable	Yes	Yes	—
7	Cloudera Operational Database	No	—	Both	Multiple	Configurable	Yes	Yes	8.0
8	DataStax Astra DB	Yes	—	Managed	Multiple	Configurable	Yes	Yes	9.0

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