Installation Prerequisites

Cassandra will run on both 32bit and 64bit operating systems, with 32bit or 64bit Java. The 64bit versions are preferred.

• Download the latest binary tarball from http://cassandra.apache.org/

Note: Cassandra versions 2.x and later are not currently supported.

• Download Commons Daemon from http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/daemon/binaries/ - this tool allows Cassandra to be run as a service/daemon.

Note: If running Windows, make sure you download the Windows archive! The archive should contain 32bit prunsrv.exe,

the 64bit version will be found appropriate subdirectory, either amd64 or ia64. Also, currently, versions 1.0.14 and older work correctly, but version 1.0.15 fails to properly stop the service.

• Install JDK/JRE 7 - Preferably the most stable version available.