How to know the size of a keyspace and column family in Cassandra?

Question

Recently I\'ve started working on Grails integration with Cassandra using the Java driver for cassandra(cassandra-driver-core-2.0.2). So I was curious to know how we can find ou

Answer 1

I've created a small script to print nodetool results in a nice table:

#!/bin/sh
nodetool cfstats -H | awk -F ' *: *' '
  BEGIN { print "Keyspace,Table,Live,Total" }
  /^Keyspace : / { ks = $2 }
  /\tTable:/ { t = $2 }
  /\tSpace used .live/ { sp = $2 }
  /\tSpace used .total/ { print ks "," t "," sp "," $2 }
' | column -s , -t