//Create cluster
Cluster cluster = Cluster.builder().addContactPoint(hostNameOrIp)
//Get session
Session session = cluster.connect();
//create keyspace using session
session.execute(String.format("CREATE KEYSPACE IF NOT EXISTS %s WITH REPLICATION = {'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': %d}",
            QueryBuilder.quote("MY_KS"),
        1)
        );

String tableQuery = "CREATE TABLE timeline2 (
    key varchar,
    open float,
    high float,
    low float,
    close float,
    volume int,
    adjusted float,
    dtime timestamp,
    PRIMARY KEY (key, dtime)
)";

//create columnFamily using session
ResultSet result = session.execute(tableQuery);

Map<String, String> accessMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
            accessMap.put("username", username);
            accessMap.put("password", password);

            Cluster cluster = HFactory.getOrCreateCluster("TEST_CLUSTER", new CassandraHostConfigurator(cassandraUrl), accessMap);

        ColumnFamilyDefinition cfDef = HFactory.createColumnFamilyDefinition("MY_KS", ComparatorType.BYTESTYPE);

        KeyspaceDefinition newKeyspaceDef = HFactory.createKeyspaceDefinition("MY_KS", ThriftKsDef.DEF_STRATEGY_CLASS, 1, Arrays.asList(cfDef));

        //Add the schema to the cluster.
        //"true" as the second param means that Hector will block until all nodes see the change.
        cassandraCluster.addKeyspace(newKeyspaceDef, true);

        Keyspace ksp = HFactory.createKeyspace("MY_KS", cassandraCluster);

//This will give a connection to the cluster
    Cluster cassandraCluster = connectApacheCassandra();

    ColumnFamilyDefinition cfDef = HFactory.createColumnFamilyDefinition("TEST_KS", "TEST_CF",
    ComparatorType.BYTESTYPE);

    KeyspaceDefinition newKeyspaceDef = HFactory.createKeyspaceDefinition("TEST_KS",                ThriftKsDef.DEF_STRATEGY_CLASS, 1, Arrays.asList(cfDef));


            cassandraCluster.addKeyspace(newKeyspaceDef, true);

            Keyspace ksp = HFactory.createKeyspace("TEST_KS", cassandraCluster);

            BasicColumnFamilyDefinition columnFamilyDefinition = new BasicColumnFamilyDefinition(cfDef);

            cassandraCluster.addKeyspace(newKeyspaceDef, true);

            Keyspace ksp = HFactory.createKeyspace("TEST_KS", cassandraCluster);

            BasicColumnFamilyDefinition columnFamilyDefinition = new BasicColumnFamilyDefinition(cfDef);

        BasicColumnDefinition columnDefinition = new BasicColumnDefinition();
        columnDefinition.setName(StringSerializer.get().toByteBuffer("aKey"));
        columnDefinition.setIndexName("key_idx1");
        columnDefinition.setIndexType(ColumnIndexType.KEYS);
        columnDefinition.setValidationClass(ComparatorType.LONGTYPE.getClassName());
        columnFamilyDefinition.addColumnDefinition(columnDefinition);

        columnDefinition = new BasicColumnDefinition();
        columnDefinition.setName(StringSerializer.get().toByteBuffer("aTestColumn"));
        columnDefinition.setValidationClass(ComparatorType.LONGTYPE.getClassName());
        columnFamilyDefinition.addColumnDefinition(columnDefinition);

        cassandraCluster.updateColumnFamily(new ThriftCfDef(columnFamilyDefinition));

CREATE TABLE "TEST_CF" (
  key blob,
  column1 blob,
  "614b6579" bigint,
  "6154657374436f6c756d6e" bigint,
  value blob,
  PRIMARY KEY (key, column1)
) WITH COMPACT STORAGE AND
  bloom_filter_fp_chance=0.010000 AND
  caching='KEYS_ONLY' AND
  comment='' AND
  dclocal_read_repair_chance=0.000000 AND
  gc_grace_seconds=864000 AND
  index_interval=128 AND
  read_repair_chance=1.000000 AND
  replicate_on_write='true' AND
  populate_io_cache_on_flush='false' AND
  default_time_to_live=0 AND
  speculative_retry='NONE' AND
  memtable_flush_period_in_ms=0 AND
  compaction={'class': 'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'} AND
  compression={'sstable_compression': 'LZ4Compressor'};

CREATE TABLE TEST_CF (
    aKey varchar,
    aColumn varchar
    PRIMARY KEY (aKey )
)";