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This post is my review of the Packt Publishing book Cassandra Design patterns by Sanjay Sharma. As the main title suggest, it's all about pattern and anti pattern of using Cassandra. The book has almost 74 pages covering 6 chapters. Preface: What this book covers and Who this book is for The preface of the book starts with the ideas behind this book. The main idea behind this book is for Cassandra audience to understand where and how to use Cassandra correctly and effectively.The Preface also provides brief summaries of each of the six chapters in the book and convention that follows in this books. Under the section "What you need for this book", author specified that, readers don't need any special version of Cassandra, however Cassandra 2.0 or above version will be proffered. The "Who this book is for" section of the Preface specify the audience of the book, it may be architect, or developer starting with Cassandra. Chapter 1: An Overview of Architect...

Sooner or later every enterprise application needs full text search with their content. Slor, elasticsearch based on lucene are one the best candidate for developying enterprise search. Elasticsearch got very popularity with its simplicity, but out of box it dosen't support importing data from Cassandra cluster. However Elasticsearch provides river, a river is a pluggable service running within elasticsearch cluster pulling data (or being pushed with data) that is then indexed into the cluster. With a few search i have found a cassandra-river on github from ebay, unfortunatley, project was legeacy and only support Cassandra version 1.2*. With a few effort i rewrite the project with data stax cassandra driver. Here you can find the project, now it support the following features: 1) Cron scheduling; 2) Reading Cassandra rows through Paging; 3) Based on DataStax java driver 2.0; For quick installation, download the project from the Github. Build with maven: mvn clean install i...