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What is DataStax Community Edition?

DataStax Community Edition is a free packaged distribution of Apache Cassandra™ made available by DataStax. There’s no faster, easier way to get started with Cassandra than to download, install, and use DataStax Community Edition. DataStax Community consists of several components:

The most up-to-date version of Apache Cassandra
OpsCenter Community Edition
Sample application and demo database
Smart installers for Linux, Windows, and Mac

DataStax Community – Compare Editions

DataStax provides two great editions of its complete distribution for Cassandra:

DataStax Enterprise Edition: Provides a complete integrated database management platform for both real-time and analytic data, all powered by a certified version of Cassandra. Supplies workload management/isolation between real-time and analytic operations. Also includes the enterprise version of DataStax OpsCenter, full production support, and more.

DataStax Community Edition: Contains the latest version of the Cassandra database for real-time data management, plus a free version of DataStax OpsCenter. Not supported for production systems.

Feature	DataStax Community	DataStax Enterprise
Database Software
Data Platform	Latest Community Cassandra	Production Certified Cassandra
Base Client Interfaces (CQL, JDBC)
Continuously available Hadoop with MapReduce, Hive, Sqoop, and Pig
Enterprise search with Solr
Workload/Workflow Isolation
Workload/Workflow reprovisioning
Easy migration of RDBMS and log data
Certified Quarterly Service Packs
Management Software
OpsCenter	Community Edition	Enterprise Edition
Services
Community Support
DataStax Production Support
Consultative Support
Hot Fixes
Bug Escalation Privilege
Custom Builds		Option
Active EOL Support (2 year)
Extended EOL (Active + 3 years)		Option
Licensing	Free	Subscription

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