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How You Can Use Cassandra in the Big Data World

Mar 31 2017

In simple terms, the goal of typical big data systems is to get some business benefit of information. Commonly, we need to collect the data, save it in a certain location, perform some analysis (up to data mining), and visualize results.

Though every business case is unique and there is still no silver bullet, some frameworks, tools and platforms are widely used as big data system building blocks. You may have heard frequently used words like Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, HBase and others.

This article covers the main features of Cassandra DB with respect to usage as an element of big data system infrastructure and our experience.

Mar 22 2017

Our team uses software development and database best practice and it turned out that developers got used to some of it and stopped looking at it with a critical eye.

There is a widely known opinion that implementing a business logic on the DB side is a bad idea. In most cases it is true, and can be explained in many ways.

Jul 27 2016

Implementation of the search functionality is a challenge for a software developer. Search-related requirements influence significantly on the final architecture of the system. In the first part we studied different filters and some practices of their implementation. In this part I will tell about the full text search.

Jul 15 2016

The humanity had started searching long before the beginning of modern computer century. Thanks to the common sense people invented indices. Libraries, dictionaries, maps made the life easier for the next generations of knowledge hunters. And now you as a software developer face the necessity to implement your own search functionality. Usually you can meet search-related requirements at the end of the customer’s list. But, in my opinion, they influence significantly on the final architecture of the system. Furthermore, the search index is the foundation of searching, its design errors can lead to the wrong choice of storage or database that can break your system in general.

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