5 Ways to use Spark to Enrich your Cassandra Environment

Name: 5 Ways to use Spark to Enrich your Cassandra Environment
Start: 2016-05-18T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2016-05-18T21:30:00-05:00
Location: IHS

Hosted By

Lina T. and Jim H.

5 Ways to use Spark to Enrich your Cassandra Environment

Details

For this meetup we are excited to be joined by Jim Hatcher, Software Architect for IHS.

What You'll Learn At This Meetup:

Spark is a powerful execution framework built for operating on distributed data systems like Cassandra. In this meetup, learn how you can use Spark to complement any Cassandra installation for ETL, data migrations, consistency checking, analytics, and machine learning.

About Jim Hatcher:

Jim Hatcher is a software architect with a passion for data. He has spent most of his 20 year career working with relational databases, but he has been working with Big Data technologies such as Cassandra, Solr, and Spark for the last several years. He has supported systems with very large databases at companies like First Data, CyberSource, and Western Union. He is currently working at IHS, supporting an Electronic Parts Database which tracks half a billion electronic parts using Cassandra.