Apache Cassandra

What is Apache Cassandra? Apache Cassandra is a highly-scalable, high-performance, distributed NoSQL database. It is designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Where Apache Cassandra should be used? Cassandra is best used in situations where scalability and high availability are the primary concerns, such as:

A bit of Background about Cassandra Cassandra is an open-source Apache project. It was originally developed at Facebook in 2007 for their inbox search feature. The Apache Cassandra architecture is designed to provide scalability, availability, and reliability to store large amounts of data. Cassandra combines the distributed nature of Amazon’s Dynamo which is a key-value store…

To connect to Cassandra in Apache Spark, you can use the Cassandra connector for Spark. The Cassandra connector is a library that allows Spark to read data from and write data to Cassandra. To use the Cassandra connector, you need to include it as a dependency in your Maven project…

Apache Cassandra, the NoSQL database developed by Avinash Lakshman at Facebook to enhance inbox search. Cassandra is a highly performant and reliable database and is used by some major companies, like Discord, Netflix, Spotify, etc. One of the main benefits of Cassandra is that it can handle high volumes of…

Author: Pieter Humphrey Stargate v2 is now available on the Postman API Network, the most popular way to create, share, test, and document Web APIs. Postman users can quickly develop, test, and learn Apache Cassandra with a range of available performance and productivity tradeoffs. …

Over the years, we are seeing increasing shift toward building cloud-native applications and Apache Cassandra has seen greater adoption due to its fast writing and reading capabilities and handling thousands of request per second, thus handling tough data challenges. Though SpringBoot through Spring Data supports Apache Cassandra using Cassandra Repository…

Apache Cassandra (https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index.html) is an open source NOSQL distributed database that is built for high availability, scalability and performs well with huge data sets. In this demo, we will setup a Cassandra cluster on a windows machine and use it with a simple Spring Boot application. INSTALLATION You can download an…

In this post, I will walk through how to visualize data from Cassandra in Superset (by means of Presto), and along the way share some observations about my experience and potential use cases that might be interesting for you. Apache Superset has been around for a while now and has…

Is the problem with reads or writes? Table specific or in general? Node specific? These are the types of questions you should ask yourself. Write Latency To troubleshoot write performance, you have to understand what happens during a write and where the problems could manifest: From the image above, we can see…