I merged changes to master yesterday that include schema changes. You will need to drop your existing keyspaces in order to pick up the changes. You can do this in cqlsh, DROP KEYSPACE rhqtest; and if you are using ccm, you can start a cqlsh session with, ccm node1 cqlsh I just added a property to the build that will do this for you during metrics-core integration tests. mvn test -Dresetdb - John