Introduction

The project shows how to connect to a multi-node cassandra cluster.

The cluster is managed with CCM (Cassandra Cluster Manager).

Create cluter and data model

Here the commands I've used to create the cluster with ccm:

ccm create cluster_test_1 -v 2.0.12
ccm populate -n 3
ccm start

After you have created the cluster, open cql shell:

ccm node1 cqlsh

Create keyspace and table:

create KEYSPACE playlist WITH REPLICATION = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': 3 };
create TABLE users( firstname text, lastname text, age int, email text, PRIMARY KEY(lastname, firstname) );

Note that the partition key lastname is a good choice. Use firstname as clustering column.

Compile

To compile use the following command:

mvn clean compile assembly:single