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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x

You're reading from   Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x An expert guide to improving database scalability and availability without compromising performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789131499
Length 348 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Quick Start FREE CHAPTER 2. Cassandra Architecture 3. Effective CQL 4. Configuring a Cluster 5. Performance Tuning 6. Managing a Cluster 7. Monitoring 8. Application Development 9. Integration with Apache Spark 10. References 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

cqlsh

The cqlsh tool, which is also known as CQL shell, installs with Cassandra and should be used to control security, keyspace, and table definitions. Not to be confused with the old Cassandra-CLI (the deprecated Cassandra command-line interface), cqlsh will be your primary interface into controlling your Cassandra data model and analyzing cluster metadata.

If you do not have Apache Cassandra or cqlsh installed locally, you can use pip (Python's package manager) to accomplish this quickly: pip install cqlsh.

Logging into cqlsh

You will find cqlsh in the /bin directory of your Cassandra home directory. You can start it by invoking it with a host IP address to connect to and any flags required by your cluster or session...

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