capacity throughout. Cassandra actually scales slightly better for
the balanced workload’’. According to this study ‘‘for heavy-read
workloads (95% read, 5% write), both Couchbase and MongoDB
scale close to linearly’’ [34].
Column Family databases Cassandra and HBase show excellent
writing abilities, but its reading performance is poor, since these
two products were optimized for writing resulting to lots of concurrent
I/O when reading. Since Cassandra uses huge amounts of
memory, it has to perform lots of disk I/O in read heavy workloads,
leading to a highly decreased performance. Both Cassandra
and HBase have a better performance during execution of Updates.
MongoDB has similar structures to RDBMS and shows great
flexibility in data modeling, especially for medium and small-sized
businesses [35]. MongoDB is the best fit for read intensive applications