CQL Under the HoodAt this point, most users should be aware that CQL has replaced Thrift as the standard (and therefore recommended) interface for working with Cassandra. Yet it remains largely misund...

We were trying to find solution to backup and restore Cassandra hosted on AWS without loosing too much data . We tried using the native nodetool snapshot but we will loose data between the snapshots. ...

Data is critical to modern business and operational teams need to have a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to deal with the risks of potential data loss. At TLP, we are regularly involved in the data recov...

IntroductionThis post was written by one of Sysdig’s engineers Gianluca Borello and was originally featured on Planet Cassandra.As far as databases go, I’m a huge fan of Cassandra: it’s an incredibly ...

Changing from Hadoop to Spark, refining mandatory calculation, adding field statistics, storing records in Cassandra, indexing with Solr and calculating uniqueness.Changing to SparkLast year I did so...

by Rajdeep Limbu, June 13, 2017 Category: Analytics, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Fast Data | Tag: Akka, big data, Cassandra, fast data, hadoop, Kafka, Lambda Architecture, MesosAs enterprise...

What is the SMACK Stack!?The SMACK stack is a group of tools that I have seen popping up more and more recently. I am very excited about this technology stack because it brings together a few of my fa...

In the October community call, we discussed the opportunity for partners to produce domain specific solutions using Azure Container Service. The November focus for the Open Source Solutions Partner C...