Installing and Initializing Cassandra in OS X

installing-and-initializing-cassandra-osx.Rmd

Install Cassandra:

```
curl -OL http://downloads.datastax.com/community/dsc.tar.gz
tar -xzf dsc.tar.gz 
cd dsc-cassandra-3.0.9/bin
./cassandra
```

Create some tables:

```
cd dsc-cassandra-3.0.9/bin
./cqlsh
CREATE KEYSPACE dev WITH REPLICATION = {
   'class':'SimpleStrategy','replication_factor':1};
USE dev;
CREATE TABLE emp (empid int primary key, emp_name varchar);
INSERT INTO emp (empid, emp_name) VALUES (1, 'Fred Smith');
```