Hi Kevin, Yes, Spark can read and write to Cassandra without Hadoop. Have you seen this:
https://github.com/datastax/spark-cassandra-connector Harold On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > We have all our data in Cassandra so I’d prefer to not have to bring up > Hadoop/HDFS as that’s just another thing that can break. > > But I’m reading that spark requires a shared filesystem like HDFS or S3… > Can I use Tachyon or this or something simple for a shared filesystem? > > > -- > > Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com > Location: *San Francisco, CA* > blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com > … or check out my Google+ profile > <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> > <http://spinn3r.com> > >