You can use the binary tarball to install Cassandra on any Linux-based platform including Mac OS X and platforms without package support or if you do not want a root installation:
- Download the Apache
Cassandra
3.0.9 binary tarball from the following:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/cassandra/3.0.9/apache-cassandra-3.0.9-bin.tar.gz.
- Use the following command to untar:
$ tar -xvzf apache-cassandra-3.0.9-bin.tar.gz
- To configure
Cassandra
, go to the$INSTALL_LOCATION/conf
directory and make the relevant changes. You can do this once you get an idea of Cassandra internals later in the book.INSTALL_LOCATION
in this case will be$CURRENT_DIRECTORY/apache-cassandra-3.0.9/
.
- Start
Cassandra
:
$ cd apache-cassandra-3.0.9/ $ bin/cassandra # Use -f to start Cassandra in the foreground
- Verify that Cassandra is running:
$ bin/nodetool status