Hello, I have installed the 1.2 beta2 (download source + compil)
The CREATE SCHEMA fails if I do as explained in README.txt : bin/cqlsh --cql3 <== --cql3 is the default in 1.2 so it is not needed Connected to Test Cluster at localhost:9160. [cqlsh 2.3.0 | Cassandra 1.2.0-beta2-SNAPSHOT | CQL spec 3.0.0 | Thrift protocol 19.35.0] Use HELP for help. cqlsh> create keyspace jaltest WITH strategy_class = 'SimpleStrategy' AND strategy_options:replication_factor='1'; Bad Request: line 1:82 mismatched input ':' expecting '=' If I give the CREATE SCHEMA in cql3, it works :-) cqlsh> create keyspace jaltest with replication ={'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': '1'}; cqlsh> describe keyspace jaltest; CREATE KEYSPACE jaltest WITH replication = { 'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': '1' }; cqlsh> It looks that the syntax of CREATE SCHEMA in the README is in CQL2, while the syntax for connexion to cqlsh is for CQL3, >From my point of view, it should be more friendly to write the CREATE SCHEMA command using the CQL3 syntax rather than the CQL2 syntax in the README.txt. Best regards. Jean Armel