I just got into the same problems, it seems, due to some update of libs. Here is my solution by adding these dependencies to POM.xml.
groupid / artifactId / version:
- com.datastax.cassandra cassandra-driver-core 2.1.0
- com.google.guava guava 16.0.1 io.netty netty 3.9.0.Final
- com.codahale.metrics metrics-core 3.0.2
- org.slf4j slf4j-api 1.7.5
- org.slf4j slf4j-simple 1.6.1
- net.jpountz.lz4 lz4 1.2.0
- org.xerial.snappy snappy-java 1.1.1.3
3 Datastax, . !