At the Forge - Cassandra  Exploring Your Keyspace  Restart
Cassandra, and reconnect via the CLI. Then, type:  cassandra>
show keyspaces  Your new keyspace, “People”, now should appear
in the list:  cassandra> show keyspaces  You can ask for a
description of your keyspace:  cassandra> describe keyspace
People Column Family Type: Standard Columns Sorted By:
org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType@1b22920  Column Family
Type: Standard Column Sorted By:
org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType flush period: null
minutes  You now can see that your People keyspace contains a
single “Users” column family. With this in place, you can start
to set and retrieve data:  cassandra> get People.Users['1']
Returned 0 results.  cassandra> set People.Users['1']['email'] =
'' cassandra> set People.Users['1']['first_name'] = 'Reuven'
cassandra> set People.Users['1']['last_name'] = 'Lerner'  In
Cassandra-ese, you would say that you now have set three column
values ('email', 'first_name' and 'last_name'), for one key
('1') unde