The Cassandra CLI is a holdover from the pre-CQL Thrift API.
Questions tagged [cassandra-cli]
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How to list all the available keyspaces in Cassandra?
I am newbie in Cassandra and trying to implement one toy application using Cassandra. I had created one keyspace and few column families in my Cassandra DB but I forgot the name of my cluster.
I am trying to find if there is any query which can list…

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What's the difference between creating a table and creating a columnfamily in Cassandra?
I need details from both performance and query aspects, I learnt from some site that only a key can be given when using a columnfamily, if so what would you suggest for my keyspace, I need to use group by, order by, count, sum, ifnull, concat,…

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How to select data from a table and insert into another table?
I want to select specific fields of a table in cassandra and insert them into another table. I do this in sql server like this:
INSERT INTO Users(name,family)
SELECT name,family FROM Users
How to to this in cassandra-cli or cqlsh?

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How to configure cassandra for remote connection
I am trying to configure Cassandra Datastax Community Edition for remote connection on windows,
Cassandra Server is installed on a Windows 7 PC, With the local CQLSH it connects perfectly to the local server.
But when i try to connect with CQLSH…

Obama
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Alter cassandra column family primary key using cassandra-cli or CQL
I am using Cassandra 1.2.5. After creating a column family in Cassandra using cassandra-cli, is it possible to modify the primary key on the column family using either cassandra-cli or CQL?
Specifically, I currently have the following table (from…

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cassandra copy data from one columnfamily to another columnfamily
I am newbie to cassandra . I need to copy data from one columnFamily to another columnFamily in same keyspace in cassandra .Say for ex we have a A1 columnFamily in keyspace K1 , so now i need to create columnFamily A2 in the same keyspace K1 .Here i…

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Cassandra cli: Convert hex values into a human-readable format
Im starting with cassandra, and when I run list or get commands in cassandra-cli, I get results like this:
[default@usersdatabase] list users;
Using default limit of 100
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RowKey: boby
=> (column=6e616d65, value=426f62,…

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Cassandra query making - Cannot execute this query as it might involve data filtering and thus may have unpredictable performance
I'd the following Cassandra Model:-
class Automobile(Model):
manufacturer = columns.Text(primary_key=True)
year = columns.Integer(index=True)
model = columns.Text(index=True)
price = columns.Decimal(index=True)
I needed the…

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Cassandra rack concept and database structure
I am new to Cassandra and I would like to learn more about Cassandra's racks and structure.
Suppose I have around 70 column families in Cassandra and two AWS2 instances.
How many Data Centres will be used?
How many nodes will each rack have?
Is it…
user2348014
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how to get value from counter Column in cassandra with multiple row keys?
I have one column family that has multiple counter columns. Now I want to get their value behalf of different row keys, Means like RangeSlicesQuery or MultigetSliceQuery, I want to apply on counter column please give me way in counter column.

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What are the maximum number of columns allowed in Cassandra
Cassandra published its technical limitations but did not mention the max number of columns allowed. Is there a maximum number of columns? I have a need to store 400+ fields. Is this possible in Cassandra?

Luke101
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Add columns dynamically in cassandra
I have a table like this in CQL3
create table product_info
(
key text,
value text,
Primary key (key)
);
It is a vertical table . Since I can insert new rows with (key , value ) pair.
Sample data will be :
product_info
key | …

Sujith PS
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Cassandra read timeout
I am pulling big amount of data from cassandra 2.0, but unfortunately getting timeout exception.
My table:
CREATE KEYSPACE StatisticsKeyspace
WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3 };
CREATE TABLE…

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in cassandra-cli how to get all column names in a table and how to get it using hector in java?
I'm trying to get column names but could not get way to get only column names.
In cli I executed command describe table nodes, it returned the result:
CREATE TABLE nodes (
key text PRIMARY KEY,
id text,
scores text,
topic1 text,
topic2…

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No appropriate python interpreter found. Cassandra
I am a java developer and am very new to Linux and Cassandra. I am using CentOS6. I am trying to install Cassandra3.4 in the Linux machine. I have followed the steps mentioned in here.
Looks like the Linux machine already has Python installed. When…

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