Why sstable2json and json2stable is not there in Cassandra 2.1.12

Question

sstable2sjon and json2stable utilities are not present in Cassandra 2.1.12. Is there anyway i could use them with the existing Cassandra version. Also, is there any limit on the size of parition which these utilities can handle to import and export data

Answer 1

It exists in 2.1.15. Did you install from apt-get and include the cassandra-tools (apt-get install cassandra-tools) package? Otherwise, perhaps its not in your PATH or your install is broken though. try locate sstable2json and running with absolute path

Just to verify it is indeed there:

$ ar -x cassandra-tools_2.1.12_all.deb 
$ ls

cassandra-tools_2.1.12_all.deb control.tar.gz                 data.tar.gz                    debian-binary

$ tar xvfz data.tar.gz 
x ./
x ./usr/
x ./usr/share/
x ./usr/share/doc/
x ./usr/share/doc/cassandra-tools/
x ./usr/share/doc/cassandra-tools/changelog.gz
x ./usr/share/doc/cassandra-tools/copyright
x ./usr/bin/
x ./usr/bin/sstablemetadata
x ./usr/bin/sstablesplit
x ./usr/bin/sstablerepairedset
x ./usr/bin/sstablelevelreset
x ./usr/bin/sstable2json         <====================
x ./usr/bin/token-generator
x ./usr/bin/json2sstable