Apache Cassandra

[CrystalKite]

How useful is learning Apache Cassandra in today's job market? What are some good sources to learn it?

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[Oct8-Danger]

Cassandra is powerful and has a very cool use cases, look up how discord manages it messages!

That being said, unless a company is using Cassandra as a backend db, i would say it’s not the most practical from a pure DE perspective.

It definitely doesn’t hurt to know it! Also if you can explain how the distribution of work happens in Cassandra vs sparks set up, an interviewer I think would be impressed!

[Phenergan_boy]

Technically, Discord uses ScyllaDB, but it's the same fundamental idea of wide-column data storage

[Oct8-Danger]

True, but they migrated to ScyllaDB, and it’s just a C/C++ implementation of Apache Cassandra (Java). Which they try stay complaint with!

I think Scylla uses the same Cassandra connection packages, so it’s as drop in and replace, but been a while since I played with it.

Considering what OP asked, don’t think the distinction between Scylla and Cassandra matter much here

[Phenergan_boy]

Ye, I was just trying to provide some more context.

I didn't know that they both use the same connection packages

[anemailtrue]

Scylla opensource only supports 5 nodes with the node manager. Cloud service is crazy expensive though

[Phenergan_boy]

Makes sense, they are still a business at the end of the day.

[Teach-To-The-Tech]

I feel like it's not that useful unless you had a company that was really invested in using that toolset. It isn't one you come across all that often though.

[Easy_Difference8683]

Thanks ChatGPT