Using the cassandra schema tool

This package contains the tooling for cadence cassandra operations.

For localhost development

make install-schema

For production

Create the binaries

• Run make bins
• You should see an executable cadence-cassandra-tool

Do one time database creation and schema setup for a new cluster

This uses Cassandra's SimpleStratagey for replication. For production, we recommend using a replication factor of 3 with NetworkTopologyStrategy.

cadence-cassandra-tool --ep $CASSANDRA_SEEDS create -k $KEYSPACE --rf $RF

See https://www.ecyrd.com/cassandracalculator for an easy way to determine how many nodes and what replication factor you will want to use. Note that Cadence by default uses Quorum for read and write consistency.

./cadence-cassandra-tool -ep 127.0.0.1 -k cadence setup-schema -v 0.0 -- this sets up just the schema version tables with initial version of 0.0
./cadence-cassandra-tool -ep 127.0.0.1 -k cadence update-schema -d ./schema/cassandra/cadence/versioned -- upgrades your schema to the latest version

./cadence-cassandra-tool -ep 127.0.0.1 -k cadence_visibility setup-schema -v 0.0 -- this sets up just the schema version tables with initial version of 0.0 for visibility
./cadence-cassandra-tool -ep 127.0.0.1 -k cadence_visibility update-schema -d ./schema/cassandra/visibility/versioned -- upgrades your schema to the latest version for visibility

Update schema as part of a release

You can only upgrade to a new version after the initial setup done above.

./cadence-cassandra-tool -ep 127.0.0.1 -k cadence update-schema -d ./schema/cassandra/cadence/versioned -v x.x -y -- executes a dryrun of upgrade to version x.x
./cadence-cassandra-tool -ep 127.0.0.1 -k cadence update-schema -d ./schema/cassandra/cadence/versioned -v x.x    -- actually executes the upgrade to version x.x

./cadence-cassandra-tool -ep 127.0.0.1 -k cadence_visibility update-schema -d ./schema/cassandra/visibility/versioned -v x.x -y -- executes a dryrun of upgrade to version x.x
./cadence-cassandra-tool -ep 127.0.0.1 -k cadence_visibility update-schema -d ./schema/cassandra/visibility/versioned -v x.x    -- actually executes the upgrade to version x.x