Ask HN: Cassandra and Tableau or Cassandra and Elasticsearch and Kibana

[sd_sangit]

I'm a student studying software engineering at San Jose State University. As a part of side project, I'm developing an application where data (NoSql) from Apache Cassandra needs to be visualized.

I'm having trouble coming up with a decision to use the right technology stack. IMO tableau is pretty rigid regarding the structure of data plus not free and so i'm leaning more towards elasticsearch and kibana. But the problem is the data is not huge and there is no requirement to search/retrieve full-text data. Hence i'm stuck between the two options.

Please guide me and also let me know if i can use alternative technologies

[ddorian43]

"the data is not huge" you probably don't need cassandra.

[sd_sangit]

yes the motivation to use cassandra is to get familiarity.