Added kky226 plan

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+## Status
+
+### Pull Requests
+I have a PR merged in for [implicit Geometry sequence operations (#991)](https://github.com/geotrellis/geotrellis/pull/991), and another in progress with Sam to maintain [immutability of JTS Geometry wrappers (#1015)](https://github.com/geotrellis/geotrellis/pull/1015).
+
+### Cassandra Integration
+I have also set up my development environment for Apache Spark+Cassandra, and will transition towards working on Cassandra integration into GeoTrellis. I have a [spike project](https://github.com/kyeah/geotrellis-cassandra) up to play with Cassandra.
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+
+## Goal
+
+Adding Cassandra support to GeoTrellis serves several purposes:
+
+* At worst, GeoTrellis will be able to support users who wish to store their data in Cassandra clusters and utilize GeoTrellis for high-performance operations.
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+* At best, the GeoTrellis team expects Cassandra to perform better than Hadoop and HDFS, and the GeoTrellis project can transition towards using Cassandra as the main datastore.
+
+## Plan
+
+### This week
+
+1. I will continue researching Cassandra and working on the spike project to understand how Cassandra works and how raster/vector data can be ingested.
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+2. I will discuss the properties of Cassandra with Rob and plan out an initial driver/framework for Cassandra in GeoTrellis, following the style of the Hadoop and HDFS drivers.
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+### Following weeks
+
+3. I will create an initial driver/framework for Cassandra using raster RDDs.
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+4. I will form unit tests and benchmarks for the driver.
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+5. I will share my initial implementation and benchmarks with Rob and the other project maintainers through a PR and iterate.