title: How do I close a connection to a Cassandra cluster in the Hector API?
body: <p>It may sound like a dumb question, but I actually looked that up and couldn't find anything on it. I know that it is good practice to close database connections so you don't accidentally bog your database down with unclosed connections. However, there doesn't appear to be any Hector API function to "close" a connection.</p>
  
  <p>It's entirely possible that Cassandra databases take commands rather than connections.</p>