On one of my current projects we are using Cassandra and Spark Streaming to do some somewhat-close-to-real time analytics. The good folks at Datastax have built a commercial packaging (Datastax Enterp...

Cassandra + Spark = ❤️ A Hands-on Lab delivered by DataStax' Developer Advocates team. Want to learn the awesomness of distributed databases and computational systems? Jump in, watch the slides and d...

Data Processing with SMACK: Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and KafkaAlibaba CloudBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJan 11, 2018Data Processing with SMACK: Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and KafkaThis artic...

Ryan SvihlaBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingSep 3, 2015Spark Streaming is a good tool to roll up transactions data into summaries as they enter the system. When paired with an easily idempotent data store...

This is a guest blog post from our friends at Pearson outlining their Apache Spark use case.Introduction of PearsonPearson is a British multinational publishing and education company headquartered in ...

This tutorial builds on our basic “Getting Started with Instaclustr Spark and Cassandra” tutorial to demonstrate how to set up Apache Kafka and use it to send data to Spark Streaming where it is summa...

1. OverviewApache Kafka is a scalable, high performance, low latency platform that allows reading and writing streams of data like a messaging system. We can start with Kafka in Java fairly easily. Sp...

Simple sample job illustrating the use of Spark Jobserver to execute Apache Spark analytics with Cassandra. For detailed instructions on building and submitting this job see our tutorial: https://sup...