Database Reference
In-Depth Information
The required software
Cassandra runs over a JVM, and this is all you need to get Cassandra up and running. Any
platform that has the JVM can have Cassandra. At the time of writing this, Java's latest ver-
sion was Java SE 8. However, it is highly recommended to use Oracle Java 7 for Cas-
sandra, to avoid unexplainable bugs due to any inconsistency in the Java version or vendor
implementation.
The other thing that one should consider for the production setup is to have the
Java Nat-
ive Access
(
JNA
) library. It provides access to the native platform's shared libraries. JNA
can be configured to disallow swapping of the JVM and hence improve Cassandra memory
usage.
