dpratt / helenos

Helenos is a web based GUI tool to manage your data stored in Apache Cassandra

Helenos

About

Helenos is a web based GUI Cassandra client that helps you to explore data and manage your schema.

Current version

1.3

Download

sourceforge

Changelog

here

Gallery

![CF properties] (https://raw.github.com/tomekkup/helenos/gh-pages/gallery/helenos1_small.png) ![CQL] (https://raw.github.com/tomekkup/helenos/gh-pages/gallery/helenos2_small.png) ![Browse] (https://raw.github.com/tomekkup/helenos/gh-pages/gallery/helenos3_small.png)

https://raw.github.com/tomekkup/helenos/gh-pages/gallery/helenos1_small.png

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Features

• Authentication
• Listing keyspaces and column families
• Viewing properties of above
• Add / remove / truncate column family
• Add / Drop keyspace
• Data browsing via:
  • keyRange
  • predicate
• CQL support

Installation

• Make sure that a user account which your application server runs as, has write permission to home directory
• Download war package and deploy to your servlet container (tested with Jetty 8, Tomcat 6, Resin 4)
• When running on Resin, additionally make sure that fileServlet is enabled and configured (see web.xml or Resin manual)
• Start app
• Make sure your web browser supports Flash 10
• Open your web browser to http://localhost:8080/{yourdeploypath}/index.html
• Sign in with your credentials (default is admin:admin)
• Edit your connections by clicking icon in upper right corner
• After editing click button 'Connect to'

Building manually

You can build manually with Maven but first install all prerequisities:

• Qooxdoo SDK 2.1 [download] (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qooxdoo/)
• Python 2.x [download] (http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.7.3/)

Next download this package: [https://github.com/cboulanger/qx-contrib-Dialog/archive/master.zip] (https://github.com/cboulanger/qx-contrib-Dialog/archive/master.zip) and unpack to directory src/main/frontend/contribs and change destination folder name to 'dialog'. Next apply patch file 'src/main/frontent/Dialog.js.patch'.

Wish list

• Browse with indexed columns
• Results pagination and export to file
• Manually setting serializers
• Persisting default filter criteria to reuse at anytime
• JMX monitor

FAQ

• I see a cluster structure in a left pane but how to do anything more !? - Use the force Luke ...I mean right mouse button