Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Installing from a tarball
It is assumed that Cassandra is installed in the /
opt
directory, the data files are installed in
the
/cassandra-data
directory, and the system logs are installed in
/var/log/
cassandra
. These are just some conventions that were chosen by me. You may choose a
location that suits you best:
# Download. Please select appropriate version and URL from
http://cassandra.apache.org/download
$ wget \ http://mirror.sdunix.com/apache/cassandra/1.1.11/
apache-cassandra-1.1.11-bin.tar.gz [-- snip --]
Saving to: 'apache-cassandra-1.1.11-bin.tar.gz'
# extract
$ tar xzf apache-cassandra-1.1.11-bin.tar.gz
# (optional) Symbolic link to easily switch versions in
future without having to change dependent scripts
$ ln -s apache-cassandra-1.1.11 cassandra
