cassandra-bulkload-example

Sample SSTable generating and bulk loading code for DataStax Using Cassandra Bulk Loader, Updated blog post. This fetches historical prices from Yahoo! Finance in CSV format, and turn them to SSTables.

Generating SSTables

Run:

$ ./gradlew run

This will generate SSTable(s) under data directory.

Bulk loading

First, create schema using schema.cql file:

$ cqlsh -f schema.cql

Then, load SSTables to Cassandra using sstableloader:

$ sstableloader -d <ip address of the node> data/quote/historical_prices

(assuming you have cqlsh and sstableloader in your $PATH)

Check loaded data

$ bin/cqlsh
Connected to Test Cluster at 127.0.0.1:9042.
[cqlsh 5.0.1 | Cassandra 2.1.0 | CQL spec 3.2.0 | Native protocol v3]
Use HELP for help.
cqlsh> USE quote ;
cqlsh:quote> SELECT * FROM historical_prices WHERE ticker = 'ORCL' LIMIT 3;

 ticker | date                     | adj_close | close | high  | low   | open  | volume
--------+--------------------------+-----------+-------+-------+-------+-------+----------
   ORCL | 2014-09-25 00:00:00-0500 |     38.76 | 38.76 | 39.35 | 38.65 | 39.35 | 13287800
   ORCL | 2014-09-24 00:00:00-0500 |     39.42 | 39.42 | 39.56 | 38.57 | 38.77 | 18906200
   ORCL | 2014-09-23 00:00:00-0500 |     38.83 | 38.83 | 39.59 | 38.80 | 39.50 | 34353300

(3 rows)

Voilà!