I wanted to try out Cassandra, and thought the easiest way to get up and running would be via the command line. I was wondering if there is a good guide to using the cli tool that is shipped with Cassandra. I am primarily looking for options to create column families, super columns, insert sample data and query them. The documentation on apache wiki is insufficient.
Everything the cli can do, which isn't much, is contained in its online help.
$ cassandra-cli Welcome to cassandra CLI. Type 'help' or '?' for help. Type 'quit' or 'exit' to quit. cassandra> ? List of all CLI commands: ...