How to Install Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty LTS 32-64bit Easy Guide

May 1, 2014 | By the+gnu+linux+evangelist | Filed in: Tutorial.

Cassandra Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Installation Guide

You are Welcome! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install and Getting-Started with the Latest Apache Cassandra 3.x NoSQL Database for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tara LTS GNU/Linux Desktop.

And the Apache Cassandra NoSQL Database for Ubuntu is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance.

Especially relevant: Pre-Requisite to Cassandra 3.x Database Set-Up is the Oracle Java JDK Installation on System!

Finally, here is Described a System Wide Installation, for a Local one Put stuff into Home, omit permissions and adapt commands consequently.

Apache Cassandra Quick Start on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty - Featured

Apache Cassandra Overview:

Proven: Cassandra is in use at eBay, CERN, GitHub, Netflix and over 1500 more companies.
Fault Tolerant: Data is automatically replicated to multiple nodes for fault-tolerance.
Performant: Cassandra consistently outperforms popular NoSQL alternatives in benchmarks and real applications.
Decentralized: there are no single points of failure. There are no network bottlenecks. Every node in the custer is identical.
Durable: Cassandra is recommended for applications that can’t afford to lose data, even when an whole data center goes down.
You’re in Control: Choose between synchronous or asynchronous replication for each update.
Elastic: Read and write throughput both increase linearly as new machines are added, with no downtime or interruption to applications.
Professionally Supported: Cassandra support contracts and services are available from third parties.

Open a Shell session
Ctrl+Alt+t on Desktop
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)
Download Latest Apache Cassandra Release:

Apache Cassandra tar.gz

Select the Link to Latest Cassandra tar.gz Release.
Double-Click on Archive and Extract Cassandra into /tmp

Or from Shell:
```
tar xvzf apache-cassandra*.bin.tar.gz -C /tmp/
```
LogIn as SuperUser.
```
sudo su
```
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

Relocate Cassandra Directory

mv /tmp/apache-cassandra* /var/lib/cassandra

Make Needed Directories.

mkdir -p /var/log/cassandra/log

mkdir /var/lib/cassandra/{data,saved_caches,commitlog}

Creating cassandra Group and Adding Users.

groupadd cassandra

usermod -a -G cassandra [yourUser]

usermod -a -G cassandra root

Setting Ownership over Directories.

chown -R root:cassandra /var/lib/cassandra/

chown -R root:cassandra /var/log/cassandra/

Set Permissions over Directories.

chmod 775 /var/lib/cassandra/data/

chmod 775 /var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches/

chmod 770 /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/

chmod 770 /var/log/cassandra/log/

Edit Cassandra Configuration File

cd /var/lib/cassandra

nano conf/cassandra.yaml

Append:

data_file_directories:
- /var/lib/cassandra/data

commitlog_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog

saved_caches_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches

Then Search and Comment Out:
(Ctrl+w to Search on nano)

#cluster_name: 'Test Cluster'

Since no Cluster is stille in work…

Set Cassandra Log4j Directory

nano conf/log4j-server.properties

Append:

log4j.appender.R.file=/var/lib/cassandra/log/system.log

Required Oracle-Sun Official Java JDK 8 for Ubuntu

Oracle JDK Installation for Ubuntu

Installing Oracle JDK on Ubuntu Linux Desktops.
Exit from SuperUser Session.
```
exit
```
Start Cassandra Instance
```
./bin/cassandra
```
How to Solve Cassandra 3 Linux Installation Issues

Cassandra 3 Troubleshootings

Cassandra 3 Solutions
Check Connection to Cassandra Instance with nodetool
```
./bin/nodetool --host 127.0.0.1 ring
```

Then Thanks to the Apache Software Foundation You are Able to Getting-Started with NoSQL Database Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu Linux.