Cassandra & python 2.7

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Hello,

I am trying to run cassandra on CLR, my first attempt was just run it with docker from docker hub

https://hub.docker.com/r/clearlinux/cassandra

However, I got the error:
No appropriate python interpreter found.
on step 2 of Deploy with Docker section.

It seems like this container image has default-provided Python 3 and according to C* docums, cqlsh is compatible only with Python 2.7
http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/tools/cqlsh.html

If that’s the case, is it possible to tweak this container image to include only python 2.7 so cqlsh runs?

Thank you!

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Long story short.

  1. Python 2 is near EOL and it’s very not likely it would ever be added to a docker image.
  2. cql relies on Apache Thrift, which explicitly relies on Python 2.7. Therefore porting it is nearly impossible.

Solution: Forget about Cassandra and find some reasonable replacement.

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uhm, ok. I guess the clr/cassandra docker image could be removed as it doesn’t and won’t ever work. Right?

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We are avoiding removing content earlier than we have advertised to the community but yes that’s likely to be the end result.

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People had been asking for porting Thrift as early as 2013. If their developers just don’t want to listen to the community, it is a very bad sign for the product.

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What if you try to connect to Python via the provider Aiven Cassandra? That should be possible. Aiven is a cloud based provider which allows you to compare several known databases. Python and Cassandra are very well known, so nothing should stand in the way.

I use Aiven for Cassandra whenever I need a lot of storage space for my data. This is the case with my smart home for example.