Cassandra
Create the proper keyspsaces and column families by using the cassandra-cli script:
Build TSDB by executing sh build-cassandra.sh (or if you prefer Maven, sh build-cassandra.sh pom.xml)
In the config file, set tsd.storage.hbase.uid_table=tsdbuid
Run the tsd via build/tsdb tsd –config=<path>/opentsdb.conf
Configuration
The following is a table with required and optional parameters to run OpenTSDB with Cassandra. These are in addition to the standard TSD configuration parameters from