7 Easy Steps to Download & Install Cassandra on Windows

 Steps to Download & Install Cassandra on Windows

This article will show you how to easily install, setup, and manage/monitor Apache Cassandra on a Windows machine.

Mandatory for Apache Cassandra Installation

• Windows 7 and higher version
• JDK must be installed
• Firefox or Chrome Web browser for DataStax OpsCenter
• You must have Datastax community edition. You can download Cassandra from Apache website.

Download DataStax from here- download 

Step to Install Cassandra

Step 1:- Run the Datastax community edition setup. Following page will be displayed after running the Setup. I am installing 32 bit version. You can install 64 bit version as per your requirement.

You can see Cassandra version that you are going to install. Press the 'next' button.

Step 2:- Following page will be displayed after pressing the 'next' button in step 1

You can see the checkbox for license agreement. Mark the checkbox and press the next button.

Step 3:- Following page will be displayed after pressing the 'next' button in step 2

You can see the default location is C:\Program Files. You can change installation location as per your requirements.

Step 4:- Following page will be displayed after pressing the 'next' button in step 3

Step 5:- Following page will be displayed after pressing the 'next' button in step 4

Setup is ready to install. Press install button

Step 6:- Following page will be displayed after pressing the ‘install’ button in step 5

After installation is completed, click on next button.

Step 7:- Following page will be displayed after pressing the 'next' button in step 6

        Install is completed and finish button will show .press the 'Finish' button.

Finally we have installed the DataStax in our system. Go to windows start programs, search Cassandra CQL Shell and run the Cassandra Shell. After running Cassandra shell, you will see the following command line