I wanted to try out Cassandra, and thought the easiest way to get up and running would be via the command line. I was wondering if there is a good guide to using the cli tool that is shipped with Cassandra. I am primarily looking for options to create column families, super columns, insert sample data and query them. The documentation on apache wiki is insufficient.
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Everything the cli can do, which isn't much, is contained in its online help.
$ cassandra-cli Welcome to cassandra CLI. Type 'help' or '?' for help. Type 'quit' or 'exit' to quit. cassandra> ? List of all CLI commands: ...
jbellis
2010-05-14 12:39:41
Why is it that I dont see any drop column, column family like commands?
Ritesh M Nayak
2010-05-17 04:35:00