Storing simple values in Casandra datastore

Hector2.java

public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
   Cluster cluster = HFactory.getOrCreateCluster("test-cluster", "localhost:9160");
   Keyspace keyspace = HFactory.createKeyspace("MyKeyspace", cluster);

   ColumnFamilyTemplate<String, String> template = 
      new ThriftColumnFamilyTemplate<String, String>(keyspace, "ColumnFamilyName",
         StringSerializer.get(), StringSerializer.get());

   ColumnFamilyUpdater<String, String> updater = template.createUpdater("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ");
   updater.setString("firstName", "John");
   updater.setString("lastName", "Doe");

   template.update(updater);
}