I think both provide the same thing except Datastax Community also provides some extras like Opscenter, etc. But I cannot find opscenter installed when I installled DSC on ubuntu. Although on windows installation, I saw opscenter & JRE as well , so I think for DSC, there is no such prerequisite for Oracle JRE as required for Cassandra debain package, is it so ?
Btw which is usually preferred for production installs ? I may need to use Opscenter but just *occasionally*.