This document introduces Cassandra and Hadoop and how they can be used together for analytics over Cassandra data. It discusses how Cassandra is good for writes and random reads at scale but not ad-hoc queries, while Hadoop tools like MapReduce, Pig, and Hive can query Cassandra data and are extensible. It provides examples of using MapReduce and Pig with Cassandra and discusses how Raptr.com uses Cassandra and Hadoop together to improve query performance from hours to 10-15 minutes.