This method tries to check if a local Cassandra instance is found and if not start an embedded version.
This method tries to check if a local Cassandra instance is found and if not start an embedded version. For the time being, the detection mechanism is not completely reliable as we have yet to reach the sweet spot of killing Cassandra and stale JVMs and we cannot also reliably detect a running Cassandra cluster using the above methods.
This improved method (in 1.4.1) will try to perform both a port and process check before starting Cassandra in embedded mode.