1. cqlsh is a command line utility for issuing query statemets to cassandra or altering schema's in cassandra.
install/bin/cqlsh
2. Some of the options that you can pass to the cqlsh command are
3. cqlsh has some commands that are not there in Cassandra Query Language
Below are some such commands
4. Copying data to or from a specified table and csv file
5. Default keyspaces in Cassandra:
a) system_traces
b) system
6. cqlsh commands and CQL commands