DataStax Enterprise 2.2 Documentation
DSE Command Reference¶
You can issue dse commands from the bin directory of the DataStax Enterprise installation.
Synopsis¶
dse [-v] | cassandra [options] | hadoop [options] | hive [options]
| mahout [options] | pig [options] | sqoop [options]
This table describes the key dse commands:
| Command | Option | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| dse | -v | Send the DSE version number to standard output. | none |
| dse cassandra | Start up a real-time Cassandra node in the background. | link to example | |
| dse cassandra | -s | Start up a DSE Search/Solr node in the background. | link to example |
| dse cassandra | -t | Start up an analytics node in the background. | link to example |
| dse cassandra | -t -j | Start up an analytics node as the job tracker. | link to example |
| dse cassandra | -f | Start up a real-time Cassandra node in the foreground. | none |
| dse cassandra | -f -t | Start up an analytics node in the foreground. | none |
| dse cassandra | -f -s | Start up a DSE Search/Solr node in the foreground. | none |
| dse cassandra-stop | -p <pid> | Stop the DataStax Enterprise process number pid. | link to example |
| dse hadoop | fs <options> | Invoke the Hadoop FileSystem shell. | link to example |
| dse hadoop | fs -help | Send Apache Hadoop fs command descriptions to standard output. | link to example |
| dse hadoop | fs -put <URI> | Load the Pig sample data file into the Cassandra File System. | link to example |
| dse hive | Start the Hive client. | link to example | |
| dse hive | --service <name> | Start Hive by connecting through the JDBC driver. | link to example |
| dse mahout | Describe Mahout commands. | link to example | |
| dse mahout | <mahout command> <options> | Run the Mahout command. | link to example |
| dse mahout hadoop | <hadoop command> <options> | Add Mahout classes to classpath and execute the hadoop command. | link to example |
| dse pig | Start Pig. | link to example | |
| dse sqoop | -help | Send Apache Sqoop command line help to standard output. | link to example |
Hadoop, hive, mahout, and pig commands must be issued from an analytics node. Options are described in the HDFS File System Shell Guide on the Apache Hadoop web site.