After installing Cassandra and reading Cassandra The Definitive
Guide, it struck me that I should learn a bit more about the
Cassandra Query Language (CQL). So, after I setup a single-node environment and created a
.bashcassandra environment file to connect as a
student user to the Cassandra instance:
# Add the Java and JRE paths to the $PATH environments. export set PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.45.x86_64:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.45.x86_64/jre # Add the $JAVA_HOME and $JRE_HOME environment variables. export set JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.45.x86_64/ export set JRE_HOME=/usr
Having started Cassandra as the cassandra user, I
connected to the Cassandra Query Language Shell
(cqlsh) …