title: How to integrate Cassandra with Hadoop
body: <p>I am trying to set up clustered Hadoop and Cassandra. Many sites I've read use a lot of words and concepts I am slowly grasping but I still need some help.</p>
  
  <p>I have 3 nodes. I want to set up Hadoop and Cassandra on all 3. I am familiar with Hadoop and Cassandra individually but how so they work together and how do I configure them to work together? Also, how do I set up one node dedicated to, for example, analytics?</p>
  
  <p>So far I have modified my <code>hadoop-env.sh</code> to point to Cassandra libs. I have put this on all of my nodes. Is that correct? What more do I need to do and how do I run it - start Hadoop cluster or Cassandra first?</p>
  
  <p>Last little question: do I connect directly to Cassandra or to Hadoop from within my Java client?</p>