Starting a Cassandra Cluster

Remotely: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/install/installAMI.html

Locally: Download it from http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ Start cassandra with: ./bin/cassandra

Right now it will need to be manually filled with data using ./bin/cqlsh. All three column families should be of the format (key long PRIMARY KEY, value blob)