To get started with Cassandra quickly, we'll step through a single-node, local installation.
The following are the requirements to run Cassandra locally:
- A flavor of Linux or macOS
- A system with between 4 GB and 16 GB of random access memory (RAM)
- A local installation of the Java Development Kit (JDK) version 8, latest patch
- A local installation of Python 2.7 (for cqlsh)
- Your user must have sudo rights to your local system
While you don't need to have sudo rights to run Apache Cassandra, it is required for some of the operating system configurations.
Apache Cassandra 3.11.2 breaks with JDK 1.8.0_161. Make sure to use either an older or newer version of the JDK.
Head to the Apache download site for the Cassandra project ( ...
