Building a Time Series Database for Financial Data with Cassandra

Welcome Boston Cassandra Users,

For our first meetup, Carl Yeksigian of Blue Mountain Capital has offered to present on his experiences with building a scalable time series database for financial data using Cassandra 1.2 & CQL3.

Food and beverage will be served at this meetup.

I hope you're able to join us!

Abstract

This session will focus on our approach to building a scalable Time Series database for financial data using Cassandra 1.2 and CQL3. We will discuss how we deal with a heavy mix of reads and writes as well as how we monitor and track performance of the system.

About Carl Yeksigian

Carl Yeksigian graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in Computer Science. He works as a Quantitative Strategist at BlueMountain Capital in New York City, where he has spent the past year working with Cassandra and comparing other big data solutions to Cassandra.

Agenda

7:00pm - Food/Beverage/Social

7:30pm - Building a Scalable Time Series Database

8:15pm - Closing Q&A