Installation of Apache Cassandra
Cassandra is a massively scalable NoSQL database from the house of Apache which is widely used in several real-time implementations off-late due to its high performance capabilities. Thus, I would like to document a few simple steps on the installation of Cassandra in a Unix server. Cassandra can be installed by using multiple ways like, Using the RPM packages Using the tarballs of the binaries shipped Using the Debian packages We will focus on each of them briefly. Before we begin the installation, let's understand the prerequisites to install Cassandra. On your Unix machine, you will need the following packages installed. Java JDK 1.8 or later (Open JDK 8 is also absolutely fine) Python 2.7 or later (Even the latest update of 2.6 would give you trouble running Cassandra later) Once you have the above prerequisites installed on your machine, you can choose one of the above methods of installation. Further, as Cassandra is mostly used in conjunction with Bi...