In this blog, we discuss connecting Apache Spark and DataStax Astra. Also, a webinar recording is embedded below if you want to watch a live demo where we use Gitpod and Spark-Shell to connect to Data...

PrerequitesWe need to make sure Java is installed: $ java -version openjdk version "1.8.0_111" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_111-8u111-b14-2ubuntu0.16.04.2-b14) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (bu...

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hi Folks!! In this blog, we are going to learn how we can integrate Spark Structured Streaming with Kafka and Cassandra to build a simple data pipeline. Spark Structured Stre...

I've recently begun to use Spark and had to store the results produced by Structured Streaming API in a Cassandra database.In this post, I provide a simple example of how to create and use Cassandra s...

This talk will address how a new architecture is emerging for analytics, based on Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra and Kafka (SMACK). Popular architecture like Lambda separate layers of computation and d...

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...

These are template projects that illustrate how to build Spark Application written in Java or Scala with Maven, SBT or Gradle which can be run on either DataStax Enterprise (DSE) or Apache Spark. The...