Loading data from Apache Cassandra
Apache Cassandra is a NoSQL database with a masterless ring cluster structure. While HDFS is a good fit for streaming data access, it does not work well with random access. For example, HDFS will work well when your average file size is 100 MB and you want to read the whole file. If you frequently access the nth line in a file or some other part as a record, HDFS would be too slow.
Relational databases have traditionally provided a solution to that, providing low latency, random access, but they do not work well with big data. NoSQL databases such as Cassandra fill the gap by providing relational database type access but in a distributed architecture on commodity servers.
In this recipe, we will load data from ...
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