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...

Anypoint Connector for Cassandra Database Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable open source non-relational database that offers continuous availability, linear scale performance, operational simpli...

Check out Anypoint Connector for Cassandra in Exchange.Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across commodity hardware. Cassandra...

CassandraCAS Compare-and-swap in Cassandra Setup From Cassandra cqlsh: CREATE KEYSPACE IF NOT EXISTS datomic WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3}; CREATE TABLE IF N...

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...

As compute clusters scale, making efficient use of cluster resources becomes very important. Peloton is a Unified Resource Scheduler to co-schedule mixed types of workloads such as batch, stateless an...