can anyone help me how to start with cassandra??? starting from the
basics???

Thanks and Regards,
Amrita

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's what README says:
>
>  * bin/cassandra -f
>
> Running the startup script with the -f argument will cause Cassandra to
> remain in the foreground and log to standard out.
>
> Now let's try to read and write some data using the command line client.
>
>  * bin/cassandra-cli --host localhost
>
> The command line client is interactive so if everything worked you should
> be sitting in front of a prompt...
>
>  Connected to: "Test Cluster" on localhost/9160
>  Welcome to cassandra CLI.
>
>  Type 'help;' or '?' for help. Type 'quit;' or 'exit;' to quit.
>  [default@unknown]
>
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Amrita Jayakumar
> <amritajayakumarcp@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Marcus,
> >             Can u please tell me how to do that??? I was just following
> the
> > instructions in the README file that came with the package.
> >
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > Amrita
> >
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Marcus Bointon <
> marcus@synchromedia.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 30 May 2011, at 10:59, Amrita Jayakumar wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am new to cassandra. I am trying to start the Cassandra single node
> >> > setup using the command
> >> > bin/cassandra -f. But there is no response from the prompt.. this is
> >> > what it shows
> >>
> >> I'm new to this too, but I think you're looking at the wrong thing.
> >> cassandra -f is not an interactive mode, it just runs the server in the
> >> foreground and shows you log output, which is useful for debugging
> server
> >> config. The output you have looks like it's working fine. You need to
> start
> >> another terminal and connect to it from a cassandra client.
> >>
> >> Marcus
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Ellis
> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
> http://www.datastax.com
>