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Spark Cassandra Connector¶
The Spark Cassandra Connector is an open-source interface that lets Spark jobs directly read from and write to Cassandra. It's the Spark-side counterpart to a JDBC driver for a relational DB — Spark workers treat Cassandra tables as first-class RDD / DataFrame sources.
Seen in¶
- sources/2026-04-07-yelp-zero-downtime-cassandra-4x-upgrade — listed among the Yelp components that had to be made compatible with Cassandra 4.1 as part of the fleet upgrade. Yelp's detailed usage of the connector is covered in an earlier 2024-09 post (Boosting ML pipeline efficiency: direct Cassandra ingestion from Spark) not yet ingested.
Related¶
- systems/apache-cassandra — source and destination.
- systems/apache-spark — the compute side.