Getting started
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This short guide will walk you through getting a basic one node cluster up
and running, and demonstrate some simple reads and writes.
* tar -zxvf apache-cassandra-$VERSION.tar.gz
* cd apache-cassandra-$VERSION
* sudo mkdir -p /var/log/cassandra
* sudo chown -R `whoami` /var/log/cassandra
* sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/cassandra
* sudo chown -R `whoami` /var/lib/cassandra
Note: The sample configuration files in conf/ determine the file-system
locations Cassandra uses for logging and data storage. You are free to
change these to suit your own environment and adjust the path names
used here accordingly.
Now that we're ready, let's start it up!
* bin/cassandra -f
Running the startup script with the -f argument will cause Cassandra to
remain in the foreground and log to standard out.
Now let's try to read and write some data using the command line client.
* bin/cassandra-cli --host localhost
The command line client is interactive so if everything worked you should
be sitting in front of a prompt...
Connected to: "Test Cluster" on localhost/9160
Welcome to cassandra CLI.
Type 'help;' or '?' for help. Type 'quit;' or 'exit;' to quit.
[default@unknown]
As the banner says, you can use 'help;' or '?' to see what the CLI has to
offer, and 'quit;' or 'exit;' when you've had enough fun.
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Sasha Dolgy
sasha...@gmail.com
What is the output of "bin/cassandra -f"?
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Tyler Hobbs
Software Engineer, DataStax
Maintainer of the pycassa Cassandra Python client library