Maybe this is an anti-pattern.. please feel free to flame me if that's the case ;)
I'd like to embed cassandra in junit so that I can test my database code from my laptop and also get it working in our integration. The general idea is to start with a clean slate, run cassandra, create tables, simulate production load, then shutdown. This page: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Embedding seems to hint that it's possible. of course.. there are some tests here that make it more complicated - like quorum read. but for right now I'll settle for one replica. -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: *San Francisco, CA* Skype: *burtonator* blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> <http://spinn3r.com> War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Corporations are people.