Installing Cassandra on Mac: A Quick Guide

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Install Cassandra on Mac

1. Install most recent version of Java. Install homebrew if you don't already have it.

   brew install java
   

2. Grab a link to the most recent version of Cassandra from their download page.

   mkdir -p ~/opt/packages && cd $_
   curl -O http://mirrors.koehn.com/apache/cassandra/3.7/apache-cassandra-3.7-bin.tar.gz
   gzip -dc apache-cassandra-3.7-bin.tar.gz | tar xf -
   ln -s ~/opt/packages/apache-cassandra-3.7 ~/opt/cassandra
   mkdir -p ~/opt/cassandra/data/data
   mkdir -p ~/opt/cassandra/data/commitlog
   mkdir -p ~/opt/cassandra/data/saved_caches
   mkdir -p ~/opt/cassandra/logs
   

3. Add Cassandra to your path by adding the following to ~/.profile.

   # include locally installed Cassandra in PATH
   if [ -d "$HOME/opt" ]; then
       PATH="$PATH:$HOME/opt/cassandra/bin"
   fi
   

4. Reload ~/.profile.

   source ~/.profile
   

5. Start Cassandra.

   cassandra -f
   

6. Connect to Cassandra in another terminal window. You may need to reload your ~/.profile.

   source ~/.profile
   cqlsh
   

Sources

• Guide to install Cassandra
• Guide to install Java
• Cassandra Download Page
• Homebrew

cassandra -f Unable to start.

INFO 22:44:14 Token metadata:
Exception (java.lang.AssertionError) encountered during startup: Cannot find column durable_wrıtes
java.lang.AssertionError: Cannot find column durable_wrıtes
at org.apache.cassandra.db.RowUpdateBuilder.add(RowUpdateBuilder.java:271)
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.makeCreateKeyspaceMutation(SchemaKeyspace.java:395)
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.makeCreateKeyspaceMutation(SchemaKeyspace.java:402)
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.saveSystemKeyspacesSchema(SchemaKeyspace.java:267)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.SystemKeyspace.finishStartup(SystemKeyspace.java:470)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:343)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:585)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:714)
ERROR 22:44:14 Exception encountered during startup
java.lang.AssertionError: Cannot find column durable_wrıtes
at org.apache.cassandra.db.RowUpdateBuilder.add(RowUpdateBuilder.java:271) ~[apache-cassandra-3.7.jar:3.7]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.makeCreateKeyspaceMutation(SchemaKeyspace.java:395) ~[apache-cassandra-3.7.jar:3.7]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.makeCreateKeyspaceMutation(SchemaKeyspace.java:402) ~[apache-cassandra-3.7.jar:3.7]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.saveSystemKeyspacesSchema(SchemaKeyspace.java:267) ~[apache-cassandra-3.7.jar:3.7]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.SystemKeyspace.finishStartup(SystemKeyspace.java:470) ~[apache-cassandra-3.7.jar:3.7]
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:343) [apache-cassandra-3.7.jar:3.7]
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:585) [apache-cassandra-3.7.jar:3.7]
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:714) [apache-cassandra-3.7.jar:3.7]

Cannot find column durable_wrıtes

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