title: Starting an embedded Cassandra instance for Unit tests
body: <p>I need to start a Embedded cassandra instance to perform some operations on a Cassandra keyspace via Unit tests. Programming Language is Java. What are the options to start an embedded cassandra?</p>
  
  <p>I used the mojo maven plugin, however after starting the instance using following command, I do not see the cassandra instance started at default port 9042 on localhost.
  Plugin:<a href="http://www.mojohaus.org/cassandra-maven-plugin/usage.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.mojohaus.org/cassandra-maven-plugin/usage.html</a>
  Command to start: mvn cassandra:run  -Dcassandra.nativeTransportPort=9042 </p>
  
  <p>Is there something missing in terms of usage or do I need to use something different?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks
  Jyothi</p>