Cassandra set up in Mac

What is Apache Cassandra

Its a database.

Installing Cassandra on MacOSX

Assuming that you already installed homebrew, you can easily install it by using terminal

brew install cassandra

And we’ll need python for that so if you also haven’t got that, then

brew install python

And CQL for console query

pip install cql

Starting the server

There are 2 options, start it automatically on login or just now. To see how, you can type

brew info cassandra

And it will give you the command that you’ll need. For example, if you want to start now

launchctl load /usr/local/opt/cassandra/homebrew.mxcl.cassandra.plist 

Query from terminal

cqlsh

Basic Queries

Create keyspace first

CREATE KEYSPACE demo WITH REPLICATION = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor':1 };

Then use the keyspace

USE demo

And just queries like all other SQL queries

That’s it!

Now you can bricked me for being lazy

References

a.k.a hope its not dead yet links a.k.a you should probably read these people blog instead of mine

http://christopher-batey.blogspot.com/2013/05/installing-cassandra-on-mac-os-x.html?m=1 http://www.planetcassandra.org/create-a-keyspace-and-table/