In Cassandra Lunch #15, we discuss Cassandra Backup / Restoration. We discuss disaster avoidance, disaster recovery, and different tools that can be used for backup and restoration of your Cassandra data. Also, we discuss an example scenario of how someone has set up multi-node clusters and how they go about data backup and restoration. 

In this blog post, we will introduce Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, and discuss how to connect it with Cassandra. We will also give you a quick demo to show how you can quickly test it out yourself. Also, this will be part 1 of our series on “Doing SQL and Reporting on Apache Cassandra with Open Source Tools”, so be on the lookout for parts 2, 3, and 4!

In case you missed Cassandra Lunch #11, we discussed 10 different Cassandra distributions and variants. In this blog, we will give a quick introduction to those 10 distributions and variants. We have also linked a video of Cassandra Lunch #11 if you want a more in-depth discussion about these 10 Cassandra distributions and variants.

Rahul Singh, CEO and Co-founder at Anant, recently gave a webinar on building a REST API with Cassandra on DataStax Astra using python and node.

Visualizing data helps companies interpret and analyze massive amounts of data to help them make data-driven decisions. Visualization allows for understanding trends, outliers, and patterns that may not be as obvious in just a table format. Finding the best way to visualize data in Cassandra or DataStax may be time-consuming as there are many tools, commercial and open-source, but not all of them enable connections to Cassandra and/or DataStax. Here are some of the best tools to help users visualize their data in Cassandra or DataStax.