2 min readJul 29, 2022
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Author: Tushar Jadhav
Apache Cassandra is a powerful NoSQL distributed database designed for handling huge volumes of data with high availability, fault tolerance, and zero-downtime scalability. This guide walks you through Cassandra installation on Linux, suitable for:
✔ Ubuntu (16.04–18.04) ✔ CentOS / RHEL (6.6–7.9) ✔ Amazon Linux (2016–Linux2) ✔ Debian (8 & 9) ✔ SUSE Enterprise Linux 12
Whether you are deploying Cassandra for development or production, this article focuses on Java setup, installation options, Docker deployment, and tarball installation.
🔧 Prerequisites
Before installation, ensure the following dependencies exist.
1️⃣ Install Java (JDK 8 or JDK 11)
Cassandra requires Java 8 or Java 11. Check Java vers…
2 min readJul 29, 2022
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Author: Tushar Jadhav
Apache Cassandra is a powerful NoSQL distributed database designed for handling huge volumes of data with high availability, fault tolerance, and zero-downtime scalability. This guide walks you through Cassandra installation on Linux, suitable for:
✔ Ubuntu (16.04–18.04) ✔ CentOS / RHEL (6.6–7.9) ✔ Amazon Linux (2016–Linux2) ✔ Debian (8 & 9) ✔ SUSE Enterprise Linux 12
Whether you are deploying Cassandra for development or production, this article focuses on Java setup, installation options, Docker deployment, and tarball installation.
🔧 Prerequisites
Before installation, ensure the following dependencies exist.
1️⃣ Install Java (JDK 8 or JDK 11)
Cassandra requires Java 8 or Java 11. Check Java version:
java -version
Install JDK RPM Package (Example)
wget —no-cookies —no-check-certificate —header \"Cookie:oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" \"http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm"
yum -y localinstall jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpmjava -version # verify…