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Subject: Software Laboratory Vi Class: Be It Experiment No: 2 Aim: Study of Nosql Database - Cassandra. Cassandra Installation

This document provides instructions for installing Cassandra NoSQL database on Ubuntu. It describes downloading and extracting the Cassandra files, configuring directories and files, starting the Cassandra daemon, creating a keyspace and table using CQL, inserting and querying data. It also provides a reference URL for more details on CQL queries and instructions for stopping Cassandra.

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Subject: Software Laboratory Vi Class: Be It Experiment No: 2 Aim: Study of Nosql Database - Cassandra. Cassandra Installation

This document provides instructions for installing Cassandra NoSQL database on Ubuntu. It describes downloading and extracting the Cassandra files, configuring directories and files, starting the Cassandra daemon, creating a keyspace and table using CQL, inserting and querying data. It also provides a reference URL for more details on CQL queries and instructions for stopping Cassandra.

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Subject : Software Laboratory VI

Class: BE IT
Experiment No: 2
Aim : Study of NoSQL Database - Cassandra.
Cassandra installation
The following instructions are applicable to Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04 &Ubuntu 15.10.

Steps:
#

Download Cassendra from following url (the most stable release)


http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/cassandra/2.2.4/apache-cassandra-2.2.4bin.tar.gz

# Copy and extract apache-cassandra-2.2.4-bin.tar.gz in home folder


# Rename the extracted folder name from apache-cassandra-2.2.4 to cassandra
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

java -version
mkdir ~/cassandra/lib/data
mkdir ~/cassandra/lib/commitlog
mkdir ~/cassandra/lib/saved_caches
mkdir ~/cassandra/log
# remember your user
name whoami
gedit ~/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml
# Go to the end of file and add following lines
data_file_directories:
- /home/your_user_name/cassandra/lib/data
commitlog_directory: /home/your_user_name/cassandra/lib/commitlog
saved_caches_directory: /home/your_user_name/cassandra/lib/saved_caches

# save and exit the file


gedit ~/cassandra/conf/logback.xml
# replace line 35 by
<file>/home/your_user_name/cassandra/log/system.log</file>

# save and exit the file

~/cassandra/bin/cassandra -f
# The cassandra daemon should start in the foreground (don't press ctrl + c; as it'll
terminate the daemon)
# open a new terminal
~/cassandra/bin/cqlsh
# Itll have output
like this cqlsh>
# First, create a keyspace
CREATE KEYSPACE mykeyspace
WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 1 };
#

use

the

new

keyspace:

USE

mykeyspace;

# create a student table:


CREATE TABLE student
( roll int PRIMARY KEY,
fname text,
lname
text );

# store data into student table:


INSERT INTO student (roll, fname, lname)
VALUES (1, 'jack', 'castle');
INSERT INTO student (roll, fname, lname)
VALUES (2, 'james', 'doe');
INSERT INTO student (roll, fname, lname)
VALUES (3, 'john', 'smith');
#

fetch the data from


table: SELECT *
FROM student;

# output :

-----

roll | fname | lname


+------ +--------

jack |
1 | castle
2| james | doe
3

joh
n | smith

# retrieve data about students whose last name is smith by creating an index

CREATE INDEX ON student (lname);


SELECT * FROM student WHERE lname = 'smith';
roll | fname | lname
------+-------+------3 | john | smith

cqlsh> exit
# for more CQL queries please refer
http://docs.datastax.com/en/latest-cql/cql/cql_using/useAboutCQL.html

# stop cassandra
Just press ctrl + c in the terminal where the cassandra daemon is running.

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