We have reached the part where we talk about storage. The C in the SMACK stack refers to Cassandra. The reader may wonder, why not use a conventional database? The answer is that Cassandra is the database that propels giants such as Walmart, CERN, Cisco, Facebook, Netflix, and Twitter. Spark uses a lot of Cassandra's power. Application efficiency is greatly increased using the Spark Cassandra Connector.
This chapter has the following sections:
- A bit of history
- NoSQL
- Apache Cassandra installation
- Authentication and authorization (roles)
- Backup
- Recovery
- Spark-Cassandra connector