I am a	Modern business, government agency, educational institution looking for a tested, stable, and production-ready big data platform	Technical professional looking for the easiest way to use Apache Cassandra in a non-production environment
Recommended solution	DataStax Enterprise Edition	DataStax Community Edition
Cassandra development model	Open Source	Open Source
Version of Apache Cassandra	Selected by experts at DataStax	Latest community release
Benefits of Cassandra version	Certified version of Cassandra via DataStax certification process of quality assurance testing, performance benchmarking, and defect resolution	Contains latest features introduced via the Cassandra community
Hadoop / analytics support	Built-in and integrated into a single cluster, with full MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Mahout, and Sqoop support.	Low-level and manual integration with Hadoop
Benefits of Hadoop support	Full integration into one database cluster, with no single point of failure and support for running Hadoop across multiple data centers at once	N/A
Enterprise search support	Built-in and integrated into a single cluster, with Apache Solr. Full continuous availability support across multiple data centers bundled in	None
Workload management benefits	Built-in so that all Cassandra, Hadoop, and Solr operations and workloads do not conflict with one another	None
Security Features	General and advanced security features	General security features
Support options	24x7x365 production support from DataStax	Community forums and mailing lists
Software maintenance schedule	Determined by DataStax based on customer needs and feedback, along with formal software release policies	Determined by community
Upgrade path	Always future compatible; easy upgrades	Can upgrade to new community versions, but not DataStax Enterprise (must migrate the data)
Software end of life support	2 years active support; 3 years extended support	None
Management software	DataStax OpsCenter Enterprise Edition	DataStax OpsCenter Community Edition
Licensing	Subscription	Free