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Published inDec 2016
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Raúl Estrada
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Raúl Estrada

Raúl Estrada has been a programmer since 1996 and a Java developer since 2001. He loves all topics related to computer science. With more than 15 years of experience in high-availability and enterprise software, he has been designing and implementing architectures since 2003. His specialization is in systems integration, and he mainly participates in projects related to the financial sector. He has been an enterprise architect for BEA Systems and Oracle Inc., but he also enjoys web, mobile, and game programming. Raúl is a supporter of free software and enjoys experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, languages, and methods. Raúl is the author of other Packt Publishing titles, such as Fast Data Processing Systems with SMACK and Apache Kafka Cookbook.
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Spark Cassandra connector


To use Apache Spark and Apache Cassandra together, we could develop the calls with our bare hands, but thanks to the open source community coordinated by the DataStax people we have the Spark Cassandra connector. If you remember the history, Cassandra was a project conceived on Facebook that became an Apache project and reached such a size that a whole company was created to support it: DataStax.

DataStax is the company responsible for Apache Cassandra's fate. DataStax has developed, among other useful tools, the Spark-Cassandra connector, which is a powerful open source library that hast three main directives:

  1. Expose Cassandra tables as Spark RDDs.
  2. Write Spark RDDs to Cassandra.
  3. Execute CQL queries within Spark applications.

The Spark-Cassandra connector main features are:

  • Supports Apache Spark version 1.0 through 1.6
  • Supports Apache Cassandra version 2.0 or later
  • Supports Scala versions 2.10 and 2.11
  • Supports all the Cassandra data types including collections
  • Can convert...
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Raúl Estrada

Raúl Estrada has been a programmer since 1996 and a Java developer since 2001. He loves all topics related to computer science. With more than 15 years of experience in high-availability and enterprise software, he has been designing and implementing architectures since 2003. His specialization is in systems integration, and he mainly participates in projects related to the financial sector. He has been an enterprise architect for BEA Systems and Oracle Inc., but he also enjoys web, mobile, and game programming. Raúl is a supporter of free software and enjoys experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, languages, and methods. Raúl is the author of other Packt Publishing titles, such as Fast Data Processing Systems with SMACK and Apache Kafka Cookbook.
Read more about Raúl Estrada