WordCount hadoop example: Inserts a bunch of words across multiple rows, and counts them, with RandomPartitioner. The scripts in bin/ assume you are running with cwd of contrib/word_count. First build and start a Cassandra server with the default configuration*, then run contrib/word_count$ ant contrib/word_count$ bin/word_count_setup contrib/word_count$ bin/word_count Output will be in /tmp/word_count*. Read the code in src/ for more details. *If you want to point wordcount at a real cluster, modify the seed and listenaddress settings in storage-conf.xml accordingly. *For Mac users, the storage-conf.xml uses 127.0.0.2 for the word_count_setup. Mac OS X doesn't have that address available. To add it, run this before running bin/word_count_setup: sudo ifconfig lo0 alias 127.0.0.2 up