Cassandra Workbench

Cassandra Workbench is a free Visual Studio Code extension for browsing and querying Cassandra databases. It also features autocomplete and syntax highlighting.

This tutorial shows how to install Cassandra Workbench and configure a connection.

Before you begin

To use Cassandra Workbench with YugabyteDB, you need to have the following

YugabyteDB up and running. Refer to YugabyteDB Prerequisites.
Visual Studio Code installed.

Install the Cassandra Workbench extension

To install the extension, do the following:

Start Visual Studio Code and from the Go menu, choose Go to File.
Enter the following command.
```
ext install kdcro101.vscode-cassandra
```

Cassandra Workbench is now available in the Activity bar.

For more information on managing extensions in Visual Studio Code, refer to Install an extension.

Create a configuration

Click the Cassandra Workbench icon in the Activity bar in Visual Studio Code.
Open the Command Palette (View>Command Palette) and enter the following command to generate the .cassandraWorkbench.jsonc configuration file:
```
Cassandra Workbench: Generate configuration
```
In the Cassandra Workbench, click Edit configuration to open the configuration file.

Replace contactPoints with the host address, and username and password with your credentials (the default user and password is cassandra).

// name must be unique!
[
    // AllowAllAuthenticator
    {
        "name": "Cluster AllowAllAuthenticator",
        "contactPoints": ["127.0.0.1"]
    },
    //PasswordAuthenticator
    {
        "name": "Cluster PasswordAuthenticator",
        "contactPoints": ["127.0.0.1"],
        "authProvider": {
            "class": "PasswordAuthenticator",
            "username": "cassandra",
            "password": "cassandra"
        }
    }
]

You can now explore your YCQL schema and data.

Cassandra Workbench

What's next

For more details, refer to Cassandra Workbench for Visual Studio Code.