Setup Container Cassandra and run commands

Cassandra is one of the most widely used NoSQL databases among columnar data stores.

In this story, we will setup a Cassandra server and we will use a Cassandra CLI to execute some commands. We will use Docker containers to setup the environment.

Setup

To set up a Cassandra database, run a Docker container based on the official Docker image cassandra:

docker run --name cassandra -d cassandra