Hi Oleg,If you want to use cassandra+spark without hadoop, perhaps Stratio Deep is your best choice (https://github.com/Stratio/stratio-deep). It's an open-source Spark + Cassandra connector that doesn't make any use of Hadoop or Hadoop component.
http://docs.openstratio.org/deep/0.3.3/about.html http://docs.openstratio.org/deep/0.3.3/t10-first-steps-deep-cassandra.html Best regards, Paco Disclaimer: I currently work at Stratio :-)