Ask HN: Cassandra and Tableau or Cassandra and Elasticsearch and Kibana

3 points by sd_sangit 9 years ago | 3 comments

I'm a student studying software engineering at San Jose State University. As a part of side project, I'm developing an application where data (NoSql) from Apache Cassandra needs to be visualized.

I'm having trouble coming up with a decision to use the right technology stack. IMO tableau is pretty rigid regarding the structure of data plus not free and so i'm leaning more towards elasticsearch and kibana. But the problem is the data is not huge and there is no requirement to search/retrieve full-text data. Hence i'm stuck between the two options.

Please guide me and also let me know if i can use alternative technologies

ddorian43 9 years ago |

"the data is not huge" you probably don't need cassandra.

sd_sangit 9 years ago | |

yes the motivation to use cassandra is to get familiarity.

ddorian43 9 years ago | | |

then you can't do custom/complex queries on cassandra (which bi does/needs). so you either use spark(or something similar, like prestosql) or move the data somewhere else