The following table summarizes connection properties which are required to connect to a database.

Table 1. Required Properties
Property Characteristic
KeyspaceName Specifies the default name of the Cassandra keyspace to which the driver connects. This value is used as the default qualifier for unqualified table names in SQL queries. Note that a Cassandra keyspace is equivalent to a relational database.
PortNumber Specifies the port of the server that is listening for connections to the Cassandra keyspace. The default is 9042.
ServerName Specifies the name or the IP address of the server to which you want to connect.
ClusterNodes A comma-separated list of member nodes in your cluster to which the driver attempts to connect. Specifying a value for this option enables connection failover and load balancing.