Using cqlsh you can do: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM columnfamily LIMIT 5000;
Does that help? Read more: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/references/cql/SELECT Thanks, -Utkarsh On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Techy Teck <comptechge...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have inserted 1000 rows in Cassandra database. Now I am trying to find > out how many rows have been inserted in Cassandra database using the CLI > mode. > > > In rdbms, I can do this sql- > > * SELECT count(*) from TABLE;* > > And this will give me total count for that table; > > How to do the same thing in Cassandra database? > > I am running Cassandra 1.2.3 > -- Thanks, -Utkarsh