Cassandra DataStax: Developer Guide With Spring Data Cassandra

• http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/gettingStartedCassandraIntro.html
• Recommended stable production version — DataStax Enterprise 4.5. (When this article was written).
• Compound Partition and Clustered keys: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cql/3.0/cql/ddl/ddl_compound_keys_c.html
• Spring-Data-Cassandra API and reference docs: http://projects.spring.io/spring-data-cassandra/

Download and Installation

1. Tarball Installation

DataStax DB

• You need to register yourself with DataStax for the download.
• DataStax Enterprise — http://www.datastax.com/download#dl-enterprise.
• Create these folders and permissions:

mkdir -p /var/log/cassandrasudo
sudo chmod 777 /var/log/cassandrasudo

mkdir -p /var/lib/cassandra/datasudo
chmod 777 /var/lib/cassandra/datasudo

mkdir -p /var/lib/cassandra/commitlogsudo
chmod 777 /var/lib/cassandra/commitlogsudo

mkdir -p /var/lib/cassandra/saved_cachessudo
chmod 777 /var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches

• How to run Cassandra: Go to the DataStax Cassandra installed folder on Mac/Linux/Unix env:

  cd /Users/<userName>/dse-<version>/bin
  sudo ./dse cassandra -f
  
  //This above command Cassandra DB on your local system. Hit enter to quit from ruining server in background and start CQL query console.
  sudo ./cqlsh

Create Schema: