Since your just starting out and it seems like you want to get past the admin hurdles and start coding, may I suggest you use https://github.com/pcmanus/ccm to get your local test environment setup.
Setting up a production Cassandra cluster takes a fair amount of planning (before) and tuning (during/after) in my experience. Both need to be done once you decide Cassandra is "right" for your data....ccm is nice in that you don't need to invest a lot in Cassandra to figure that out :-) Hope this helps, S On Mar 4, 2013 6:08 AM, "John Grogan" <vangu...@dir-uk.org> wrote: > Tyler, > > A quick question for you - I am completely new to noSQL databases and the > architecture of Cassandra. So, I'm still way down the learning curve. > > I downloaded and installed the OpsCenter last night, but I first need to > configure it. I want to install 2 nodes on my laptop and then start > building some code around it to move my DB from mySQL. I've had a look at > the DataStax website for some info on the very basics - setting up nodes, > configuration etc, but couldn't see anything. Is there anything there that > you can point me at? Or alternatively, any other sites that provide a good > overview with examples? > > I see that Jonathan Ellis is in London Wednesday at the Cassandra group's > talk so will try to drop by and say hello. > > Best, > John. > > > On 3 Mar 2013, at 17:06, Tyler Hobbs wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:06 AM, John Grogan <vangu...@dir-uk.org> wrote: > >> >> However, the crux is figuring out an easy way to import the data into >> Cassandra. Does anyone have any thoughts they can share? > > > If you don't have a very large dataset and you're not pressed for time, > just iterating over your existing data with a normal mysql client and > inserting into Cassandra with a normal Cassandra client is the easiest > option. Using multiple threads or processes can make this pretty quick. > > For larger datasets, loading through a map/reduce job is typical. > > >> In addition, are there any GUI tools like phpmyAdmin for Cassandra? > > > There's DataStax OpsCenter, which has a free Community Edition: > http://www.datastax.com/products/opscenter > > (Disclosure: I work at DataStax.) > > -- > Tyler Hobbs > DataStax <http://datastax.com/> > > >
