Major This issues should have been dealt with as part of its parent issue, however I think as it is a fairly lareg task in itself, it needs to be done independently. The gora.properties file should, amongst other settings, and beside the extreme basic defaults for sqlstore, include defaults for opening HBase, Cassandra, etc servers on their default ports etc. Leaving this down to individual interpretation puts a huge owness of the user, hence constructing a barrier to entry for getting the configuration settings up and running.