benjamin@benjamin-VirtualBox:~/Desktop/cassandra/bin$ ./cqlsh Connected to Test Cluster at localhost:9160. [cqlsh 4.1.0 | Cassandra 2.0.2 | CQL spec 3.1.1 | Thrift protocol 19.38.0] Use HELP for help. cqlsh> DESCRIBE keyspaces; system system_traces cqlsh> CREATE KEYSPACE mykeyspace WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 2 }; cqlsh> USE mykeyspace; cqlsh:mykeyspace> CREATE TABLE users( ... user_id int PRIMARY KEY, ... fname text, ... lname text ... ); cqlsh:mykeyspace> DESCRIBE TABLES; users cqlsh:mykeyspace> INSERT INTO users (user_id, fname, lname) VALUES (1745, 'john', 'smith'); cqlsh:mykeyspace> cqlsh:mykeyspace> cqlsh:mykeyspace> INSERT INTO users (user_id, fname, lname) VALUES (1744, 'john', 'doe'); cqlsh:mykeyspace> cqlsh:mykeyspace> cqlsh:mykeyspace> INSERT INTO users (user_id, fname, lname) VALUES (1746, 'john', 'smith'); cqlsh:mykeyspace> cqlsh:mykeyspace> cqlsh:mykeyspace> SELECT * FROM users; user_id | fname | lname ---------+-------+------- 1745 | john | smith 1744 | john | doe 1746 | john | smith (3 rows) cqlsh:mykeyspace> CREATE INDEX ON users (lname); cqlsh:mykeyspace> SELECT * FROM users WHERE lname = 'smith'; user_id | fname | lname ---------+-------+------- 1745 | john | smith 1746 | john | smith (2 rows) cqlsh:mykeyspace> DROP TABLE users; cqlsh:mykeyspace> cqlsh:mykeyspace> cqlsh:mykeyspace> DESCRIBE TABLES; cqlsh:mykeyspace> cqlsh:mykeyspace> cqlsh:mykeyspace>