How to rename keyspace in Cassandra?

Question

How do you rename a live Cassandra keyspace through the cassandra-cli? Previous versions had an option in cassandra-cli (\"rename keyspace\"). However, that option has been

Answer 1

Renaming keyspaces (and column families) is no longer supported, since it was prone to race conditions. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1585.