Cassandra

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.

Slackbuild

• cd /tmp

• wget http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.1/system/apache-cassandra.tar.gz

• tar xvzf apache-cassandra.tar.gz

• wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/cassandra/2.0.7/apache-cassandra-2.0.7-bin.tar.gz

• ./apache-cassandra.SlackBuild

• installpkg /tmp/apache-cassandra-2.0.7-noarch-1_SBo.tgz

Node up

• useradd cassandra
• mkdir /home/cassandra
• cd /home/cassandra
• chown cassandra . -R
• mkdir /var/lib/cassandra
• cd /var/lib/cassandra
• chown cassandra . -R
• mkdir /var/log/cassandra
• cd /var/log/cassandra
• chown cassandra . -R
• JAVA_HOME=/opt/java /opt/apache-cassandra/bin/cassandra -f

cqlsh

http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted

• bin/cqlsh

CREATE KEYSPACE mykeyspace WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 1 };
describe keyspaces;
USE mykeyspace;
CREATE TABLE users (  user_id int PRIMARY KEY,  fname text,  lname text );
INSERT INTO users (user_id,  fname, lname)  VALUES (1745, 'john', 'smith');
INSERT INTO users (user_id,  fname, lname)  VALUES (1744, 'john', 'doe');
INSERT INTO users (user_id,  fname, lname)  VALUES (1746, 'john', 'smith');
describe tables;
SELECT * FROM users;
desc table users;
CREATE INDEX ON users (lname);
desc table users;
SELECT * FROM users WHERE lname = 'smith';