Cassandra is a great tool for solving specific problems, but it is not a general-purpose data store. Considering the prior section where we discussed the read and write paths, there are some obvious scenarios in which Cassandra is not the correct choice of the data store. These are important to remember, and we will discuss them in this section:
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