There's a good post on stackoverflow comparing the two http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2892729/mongodb-vs-cassandra
It seems to me that both projects have pretty vibrant communities behind them. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > Can someone quickly explain the differences between the two? Other than the > fact that MongoDB supports ad-hoc querying I don't know whats different. It > also appears (using google trends) that MongoDB seems to be growing while > Cassandra is dying off. Is this the case? > > Thanks for the help >