An introduction to a real-time analytics engine using Cassandra and Hadoop.

This session will use both the enterprise product from Datastax. Datastax Enterprise provides a simple way of interfacing Cassandra with Hadoop, and the techniques used in this class are directly implementable in the open-source version of Cassandra.

To download DSE, you will need to register with Datastax and log into the system with your credentials, which will be emailed to you.

We will use DSE 3.14.

• *NIX machine
• Download Datastax Enterprise
• This code

The course will cover the following topics:

I. Introduction to Cassandra i. Overview i. History ii. Why Cassandra? iii. Cassandra with Hadoop ii. Getting Started i. Starting Cassandra ii. Configuration iii. Measuring Performance iii. Architecture i. Ring Topology ii. Data Partitioning iii. Read/Write Path iv. Deletes iv. Data Modeling v. Other Maintenance II. Analytics III. Case Study IV. Extra Credit