Hi,
I bet you are using cql commands in cassandra-cli. If you are using cli, use instead: create keyspace Excelsior with placement_strategy='SimpleStrategy' and strategy_options = [{replication_factor:1}] From: cyril auburtin [mailto:cyril.aubur...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 10:31 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: creating keyspace with 1.1 Hello I have just installed cassandra 1.1 CREATE KEYSPACE Excelsior WITH strategy_class = 'SimpleStrategy' AND strategy_options:replication_factor = 1; gives this error: Syntax error at position 85: mismatched input ':' expecting '=' I've looked in changes but didn't found Thanks