diff --git a/docker/compose/compose.extra.yaml b/docker/compose/compose.extra.yaml
index 8e871b0c..811824cd 100644
--- a/docker/compose/compose.extra.yaml
+++ b/docker/compose/compose.extra.yaml
@@ -127,15 +127,11 @@ services:
       retries: 10
 
   init-cassandra:
-    image: cassandra:3.11.14
+    image: explorviz/init-cassandra
     profiles: ["env", "init-env"]
     depends_on:
       cassandra:
         condition: service_healthy
-    volumes:
-      - ./configurations/cassandra/setup.cql:/setup.cql
-      - init-cassandra:/var/lib/cassandra
-    command: "cqlsh cassandra-explorviz -f /setup.cql"
 
   ## User-Service ##
 
@@ -236,8 +232,6 @@ volumes:
     name: explorviz-mongo-user-config
   cassandra:
     name: explorviz-cassandra
-  init-cassandra:
-    name: explorviz-init-cassandra
   prometheus-data:
     name: explorviz-prometheus-data
   grafana-data:
diff --git a/docker/compose/configurations/cassandra/setup.cql b/docker/compose/configurations/cassandra/setup.cql
deleted file mode 100644
index 56c8e1fd..00000000
--- a/docker/compose/configurations/cassandra/setup.cql
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-/*
-@formatter:off
- */
-
-CREATE KEYSPACE IF NOT EXISTS explorviz WITH replication = {'class':'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor':1};
-
-/* Find spans in a specific time range (used to find aggregate call counts)*/
-CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS explorviz.span_by_time
-(
-  landscape_token uuid,
-  start_time    bigint,
-  method_hash     text,
-  span_id         text,
-  trace_id        text, /* to be able to select full trace from span_by_traceid? */
-  PRIMARY KEY ((landscape_token, start_time), method_hash, span_id)
-);
-
-/* Count Spans in a specific time bucket of ten seconds */
-CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS explorviz.span_count_per_time_bucket_and_token
-(
-  landscape_token UUID,
-  tenth_second_epoch bigint,
-  span_count counter,
-  PRIMARY KEY (landscape_token, tenth_second_epoch)
-  );
-
-CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS explorviz.span_count_for_token_and_commit_and_time_bucket (
-  landscape_token UUID,
-  git_commit_checksum text,
-  tenth_second_epoch bigint,
-  span_count counter,
-  PRIMARY KEY ((landscape_token, git_commit_checksum), tenth_second_epoch)
-);
-
-/* SELECT trace_id FROM traceid_by_time WHERE landscape_token = X AND start_time_s = X; */
-
-/* Get complete traces by their trace id */
-CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS explorviz.span_by_traceid
-(
-  landscape_token uuid,
-  trace_id        text,
-  span_id         text,
-  parent_span_id  text,
-  start_time    bigint,
-  end_time      bigint,
-  method_hash     text,
-  PRIMARY KEY ((landscape_token, trace_id), span_id) /* parent_span_id as first clustering key to find parent=0 quickly? */
-  );
-
-/* Find traces that contain a span with a certain method_hash */
-CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS explorviz.trace_by_hash
-(
-  landscape_token uuid,
-  method_hash     text,
-  time_bucket     int,
-  trace_id        text,
-  PRIMARY KEY ((landscape_token, method_hash, time_bucket), trace_id)
-  );
-
-/* SELECT trace_id FROM trace_by_hash WHERE landscape_token = X AND method_hash = X AND time_bucket = TODAY(); */
-
-/* Find traces by time */
-CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS explorviz.trace_by_time
-(
-  landscape_token uuid,
-  git_commit_checksum text,
-  tenth_second_epoch bigint,
-  start_time      bigint,
-  end_time        bigint,
-  trace_id        text,
-  PRIMARY KEY ((landscape_token, tenth_second_epoch), trace_id)
-  );
-
-/* SELECT * FROM span_by_traceid WHERE landscape_token = X AND trace_id IN (previous result); */
-
-/* Map method_hash to metadata */
-CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS explorviz.span_structure
-(
-  landscape_token      uuid,
-  method_hash          text,
-  node_ip_address      text,
-  host_name            text,
-  application_name     text,
-  application_language text,
-  application_instance int,
-  method_fqn           text,
-  time_seen            bigint,
-  PRIMARY KEY ((landscape_token), method_hash)
-);