SYNOPSIS
pycassaShell [OPTIONS]DESCRIPTION
pycassaShell is an interactive Cassandra python shell. It is useful for exploring Cassandra, especially for those who are just beginning.It is recommended that you have IPython, an enhanced interactive python shell, installed. pycassaShell will invoke ipython underneath to provide extra functionality if it is installed. However, it will still work without it.
When pycassaShell starts, it creates a ColumnFamily object for every existing column family in your Cassandra cluster and prints the names of the objects. You can use these to insert and retrieve data easily from Cassandra.
pycassaShell acts similarly to the standard Python (or IPython) REPL. To use, enter Python expressions at the prompt and hit Enter to see the results.
OPTIONS
- -h, --help
- Show a help message and exit
- -k KEYSPACE, --keyspace=KEYSPACE
- Name of the Cassandra keyspace to which pycassaShell should attach
- -H HOST, --host=HOST
- Hostname of a Cassandra node
- -p PORT, --port=PORT
- Thrift port number for that Cassandra node
- -u USER, --user=USER
- Username (for simple auth)
- -P PASSWD, --passwd=PASSWD
- Password (for simple auth)
- -S, --streaming
- Use streaming transport (for Cassandra 0.6.x and below)
- -F, --framed
- Use framed transport (for Cassandra 0.7.x and above). This is the default transport.
- -f FILE, --file=FILE
- Run a script after startup