Downloading Cassandra.
The following older Cassandra releases are still supported:
Apache Cassandra 3.0.
Released on 2021-02-01.
Maintained until 4.2.0 release (May-July 2023)
Older (unsupported) versions of Cassandra are archived here.
Installation from Debian packages.
For the specify the major version number, without dot, and with an appended x.
The latest is 40x .
For older releases, the can be one of 311 , 30x , or 22x .
Add the Apache repository of Cassandra to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.sources.list , for example for the latest 4.0.
Add the Apache Cassandra repository keys:
Update the repositories:
If you encounter this error:
Then add the public key A278B781FE4B2BDA as follows:
and repeat sudo apt-get update . The actual key may be different, you get it from the error message itself. For a full list of Apache contributors public keys, you can refer to Cassandra KEYS.
You can start Cassandra with sudo service cassandra start and stop it with sudo service cassandra stop . However, normally the service will start automatically. For Binary Options this reason be sure to stop it if you need to make any configuration changes.
Verify that Cassandra is running by invoking nodetool status from the command line.
The default location of configuration files is /etc/cassandra .
The default location of log and data directories is /var/log/cassandra/ and /var/lib/cassandra .
Start-up options (heap size, etc) can be configured in /etc/default/cassandra .
Installation from RPM packages.
For the `` specify the major version number, without dot, and with an appended x.
The latest is 40x .
For older releases, the can be one of 311x , 30x , or binary options 22x .
(Not all versions of Apache Cassandra are available, since building RPMs is a recent addition to the project.)
Add the Apache repository of Cassandra to /etc/yum.repos.d/cassandra.repo , for example for the latest 4.0 version:
Install Cassandra, accepting the gpg key import prompts:
Start Cassandra (will not start automatically):
Systemd based distributions may require to run systemctl daemon-reload once to make Cassandra available as a systemd service. look at this web-site should happen automatically by running the command above.
Make Cassandra start automatically after reboot:
Please note that official RPMs for Apache Cassandra only have been available recently and are not tested thoroughly on all platforms yet. We appreciate your feedback and support and ask you to post details on any issues in the corresponding Jira ticket.