So in 2.0, the signature of ColumnFamilyInputFormat changed from using IColumn to Cell:
import org.apache.cassandra.db.Cell; public class ColumnFamilyInputFormat extends AbstractColumnFamilyInputFormat<ByteBuffer, SortedMap<ByteBuffer, Cell>> But Cell isn't included in cassandra-all, even though ColumnFamilyInputFormat is: object Cell is not a member of package org.apache.cassandra.db [error] import org.apache.cassandra.db.Cell [error] ^ [error] one error found [error] (compile:compile) Compilation failed cody@silverstone:/var/tmp/junkjar$ unzip cassandra-all-2.0.9.jar | egrep -e '*Cell*' cody@silverstone:/var/tmp/junkjar$ cody@silverstone:/var/tmp/junkjar$ unzip cassandra-all-2.0.9.jar | egrep -e '*ColumnFamilyInputFormat*' inflating: org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/AbstractColumnFamilyInputFormat$SplitCallable.class inflating: org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/AbstractColumnFamilyInputFormat.class inflating: org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/ColumnFamilyInputFormat.class