Is there a clear equivalent of 'show keyspaces' in cqlsh 2?

Question

What cqlsh command can I use to quickly see the keyspaces in a cluster? cqlsh does not provide show keyspaces and describe cluster isn\'t as concis

Answer 1

Very simple. Just enter this command in your cqlsh shell and enjoy

 select * from system.schema_keyspaces;

In C*3.x, we can simply use

 describe keyspaces

Answer 2

Just try this:

describe keyspaces

However you may need specs of approximately the following (rather than those mentioned by yourself Crowie)

[cqlsh 4.1.1 | Cassandra 2.0.6 | CQL spec 3.1.1 | Thrift protocol 19.39.0]

Answer 3

The correct way with C* 3.x series is:

List<KeyspaceMetadata> keyspaces = Cluster.getMetadata().getKeyspaces()

Then use getName() on the KeyspaceMetadata instances.

Answer 4

cqlsh> select * from system_schema.keyspaces;

 keyspace_name      | durable_writes | replication
--------------------+----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        system_auth |           True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': '1'}
      system_schema |           True |                             {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.LocalStrategy'}
 system_distributed |           True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': '3'}
             system |           True |                             {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.LocalStrategy'}
      system_traces |           True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': '2'}