Cassandra CQLsh
Cassandra CQLsh stands for Cassandra CQL shell. CQLsh specifies how to use Cassandra commands. After installation, Cassandra provides a prompt Cassandra query language shell (cqlsh). It facilitates users to communicate with it.
Cassandra commands are executed on CQLsh. It looks like this:
Start CQLsh:
CQLsh provides a lot of options which you can see in the following table:
| Options | Usage |
|---|---|
| help | This command is used to show help topics about the options of CQLsh commands. |
| version | it is used to see the version of the CQLsh you are using. |
| color | it is used for colored output. |
| debug | It shows additional debugging information. |
| execute | It is used to direct the shell to accept and execute a CQL command. |
| file= "file name" | By using this option, cassandra executes the command in the given file and exits. |
| no-color | It directs cassandra not to use colored output. |
| u "username" | Using this option, you can authenticate a user. The default user name is: cassandra. |
| p "password" | Using this option, you can authenticate a user with a password. The default password is: cassandra. |
