Heard about the exciting new world of distributed Analytics with Spark but not sure if it's appropriate for your use case? In this talk, we'll walk through the basic use cases for Spark with distributed databases like Apache Cassandra. We'll outline the potential uses for any organization, even those not requiring generic analytics capabilities. Learn about how we can use Spark to load data, modify tables, and move data from cluster to cluster. Discover more advanced use cases, like working with streaming services and messaging queues. Find out about all the exciting things you can do with Spark and when you may be able to get away without it!