QuickStart

Make sure you have either open source Cassandra (2.1 or later) or DataStax Enterprise (4.8 or greater) installed.

Getting up and running with CDM is simple. In a virtualenv, run the following:

pip install cassandra-dataset-manager

You’ll have a command line utility, cdm, installed in your virtualenv’s bin directory. Update your local dataset list, then install the movielens-small dataset:

cdm update
cdm install movielens-small

You now have the movielens-small dataset installed in your local cassandra cluster.

Next, type cqlsh to start working with the Cassandra shell.

Once cqlsh starts, type use movielens_small then desc tables to see all the tables in the schema. Type the following to read some data: