cqlsh - Export cassandra query result to a csv file

Question

I'm new in cassandra, and I have to export the result of a specific query to a csv file.

I found the COPY command, but (from what I understand) it allows you only to copy an already existing table to a csv file, and what I want is to copy directly the stdout of my query to the csv file. is there any way to do it with COPY command or with another way ?

My command is style (select column1, column2 from table where condition = xy) and I'm using cqlsh.

Answer 1

If you don't mind your data using a pipe ('|') as a delimiter, you can try using the -e flag on cqlsh. The -e flag allows you to send a query to Cassandra from the command prompt, where you could redirect or even perform a grep/awk/whatever on your output.

$ bin/cqlsh -e'SELECT video_id,title FROM stackoverflow.videos' > output.txt
$ cat output.txt

 video_id                             | title
--------------------------------------+---------------------------
 2977b806-df76-4dd7-a57e-11d361e72ce1 |                 Star Wars
 ab696e1f-78c0-45e6-893f-430e88db7f46 | The Witches of Whitewater
 15e6bc0d-6195-4d8b-ad25-771966c780c8 |              Pulp Fiction

(3 rows)

Older versions of cqlsh don't have the -e flag. For older versions of cqlsh, you can put your command into a file, and use the -f flag.

$ echo "SELECT video_id,title FROM stackoverflow.videos;" > select.cql
$ bin/cqlsh -f select.cql > output.txt

From here, doing a cat on output.txt should yield the same rows as above.