[CASSANDRA-18529] Remove legacy command line options from cassandra-stress

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0-alpha1, 5.0, 5.1
• Component/s: Tool/stress
• Change Category: Code Clarity
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/75f7ec7fa535174e99429d8db94ff510f003b8d3

Test and Documentation Plan

Testing of the various command line options before and after changes.

• Assignee: Timothy Tu
• Reporter: Brad Schoening

Authors

Timothy Tu

Reviewers

Brandon Williams, Stefan Miklosovic

• Created: 15/May/23 16:31
• Updated: 12/Sep/23 13:02
• Resolved: 09/Aug/23 21:25

Description

The cassandra-stress mode option allows specifying options for native protocol and cql3, but these don't seem useful as there would seem to be no other valid options now that cql3 is the standard and thrift no longer supported. 

    -mode native cql3 user=cassandra password=xxxxxx

can be simplified to:

    -mode user=cassandra password=xxxxxx

Also, the readme.txt in tools/stress states "cassandra-stress supports benchmarking any Cassandra cluster of version 2.0+" but maybe should be updated to a supported Cassandra version, i.e., 3.11.x.

Issue Links

• links to: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/2522