How can I start Apache Cassandra programmatically

Question

Hi I want to embed Apache Cassandra in my Java program, how can I start it programmatically?

Answer 1

http://prettyprint.me/prettyprint.me/2010/02/14/running-cassandra-as-an-embedded-service/index.html has written a nice blog post on how to embedd cassandra for unittests

Answer 2

We do this in our test utils module now (which also has no dependency on hector-core)

https://github.com/rantav/hector/tree/master/test/src/main/java/me/prettyprint/hector/testutils

As mentioned in the comments, there is no clean shutdown state. It is safe to just kill.