Cassandra version
brew list –versions cassandra
brew info cassandra
cassandra -v
Starting Cassandra
cassandra -f (foreground) or brew services start cassandra
Checking if Cassandra is up
brew services list | grep cassandra
Connecting to Cassandra
jdbc:cassandra://127.0.0.1:9042?localdatacenter=datacenter1
jdbc:cassandra://127.0.0.1:9042/system?localdatacenter=datacenter1 also works.
cqlsh
DESCRIBE KEYSPACES;
DROP KEYSPACE keyspace_name;