Aegisthus has been transitioned to maintenance mode. It is still used for ETL at Netflix for Cassandra 2.x clusters, but it will not be evolving further.

A Bulk Data Pipeline out of Cassandra. Aegisthus implements a reader for the SSTable format and provides a map/reduce program to create a compacted snapshot of the data contained in a column family.

Aegisthus is built via Gradle (http://www.gradle.org). To build from the command line: ./gradlew build

Please see the wiki or checkout the scripts directory to use our sstable2json wrapper for individual sstables.

To run the included tests from the command line: ./gradlew build

• Reading
  • Commit log readers
    • Code to do this previously existed in Aegisthus but was removed in commit 35a05e3f.
  • Split compressed input files
    • Currently compressed input files are only handled by a single mapper. See the discussion in issue #9. The relevant section of code is in getSSTableSplitsForFile in AegisthusInputFormat.
  • Add CQL support
    • This way the user doesn't have to add the key and column types as job parameters. Perhaps we will do this by requiring the table schema like SSTableExporter does.
• Writing
  • Add an option to snappy compress output.
  • Add an output format for easier downstream processing.
    • See discussion on issue #36.
  • Add a pivot format
    • Create an output format that contains a column per row. This can be used to support very large rows without having to have all of the columns in memory at one time.
• Packaging
  • Publish Aegisthus to Maven Central
  • Publish Shaded/Shadowed/FatJar version of Aegisthus as well

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