One way to connect to a Cassandra keyspace is through the JDBC DriverManager using the DriverManager.getConnection() method. As the following example shows, this method specifies a string containing a connection URL.

Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection
 ("jdbc:datadirect:cassandra://MyServer:9042;KeyspaceName=MyKS");
Note: A Cassandra keyspace is equivalent to a relational database.