README.md

livecassandrareader

A script to read data from the Cassandra table in real time.

Problem

The current version of the python-driver reads the data from the Cassandra table till a particular row but what if the table is updating in real-time, so in order to read the new data from a table we have to go through all the rows again.

For example:

A USER table have 100 rows in it. So using the script below:

self.session.default_fetch_size = 10
result_set = self.session.execute("SELECT * FROM testKeyspace.USER")
    while(result_set.has_more_pages):
        for row in result_set.current_rows:
            print(row)
        page_state = result_set.paging_state
        result_set = self.session.execute("SELECT * FROM test3rf.test", paging_state=page_state)

we will be able to read the cassandra table till 100th. After some time the USER table gets updated with two new rows. So in order to read the two new rows we have to go through all the other 100 rows which is inefficient.

How to use it

It supports both python2 & 3 version.

Install the python cassandra driver using the command given below:

$ pip install cassandra-driver

LiveCassandraReader class need the following argument as an input:

configurations = {
    "cass_addr": "172.17.0.1",
    "keyspace_name": "dataingestion",
    "query": "SELECT * FROM dataingestion.power_source_status4",
    "protocol_version": 4,
    "retry": 5,
    "retry_time": 10,
    "default_fetch_size": 1
}

To run the script"

$ python livecassandrareader.py