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Install Homebrew
Homebrew is a great little package manager for OS X. If you haven't already, installing it is pretty easy:
Install Python
Mac OS X has a copy of Python preinstalled, but this makes sure you get the newest version.
Two Ways to Install Cassandra
A] Using Homebrew (This led to connection refused and compilatoin errors during cassandra and cqlsh startups for me)B] Using Binaries
A] Using Homebrew
Install cql
To use cqlsh, the Cassandra query language shell, you need to install cql:
Install Cassandra
This installs Apache Cassandra:
Starting Cassandra
At the end of the install, brew will tell you about two ways to launch Cassandra. The first will launch it when the computer restarts, but this isn't recommended because you may not want to always run Cassandra. Instead use this command:
Or even easier:
and to stop:
On Mavericks, Homebrew failed to move the plist file into LaunchAgents. Which gives this error message:
To fix this just issue the following command. Then, try using the launchctl load
command again:
Cassandra file locations
Properties: /usr/local/etc/cassandra
Logs: /usr/local/var/log/cassandra
Data: /usr/local/var/lib/cassandra/data
Finally cqlsh should connect to cassandra:
B] Using Binaries
Here, we use Apache Cassandra as well as it's own bundled cqlsh
tool instead of an external one.We install Cassandra 3.5 as a standalone, single node cluster. A single node cluster is an easy way to get started learning Cassandra on your laptop.
These installation steps show how to install a local copy of Cassandra. The benefits of a local copy are that you do not need root or sudo to install Cassandra, updating versions is quick and easy, and you can control how/when to install updates.
Install the Oracle JDK
Ensure that you have at least Java JDK version 7 installed.
Install Cassandra
Create data directories for Cassandra
In this step we need to create several directories that are used by Cassandra. Each directory is used by the following configuration variable in conf/cassandra.yaml
:
- data_file_directories: ~/opt/cassandra/data/data
- commitlog_directory: ~/opt/cassandra/data/commitlog
- saved_caches_directory: ~/opt/cassandra/data/saved_caches
The logs
directory is used by logback which is configured via the conf/logback.xml
file.
Add Cassandra to your PATH
Update your PATH to include Cassandra.open -a TextEdit ~/.bash_profile
Paste the following into your .bash_profile
file.
Source your .bash_profile
file.source .bash_profile
Start the Cassandra server
We’re going to run Cassandra in the foreground during development. Cassandra will output a lot of information to the terminal when we start the server. However, this information can be useful during development in case there is a problem with the server.cassandra -f
Press Ctrl + C
when you are ready to stop the server.
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Use Apache's bundled cqlsh
One can also use a symlink, but I created an alias in my .zshrc file to point to Cassandra's own cqlsh
tool instead of an external one:
Now type and hit return:
You should see this:
Thanks!
References
A combination of below posts and my own workarounds was used to create this.
- [Download Apache Cassandra] (http://cassandra.apache.org/download/) (This is different from the Datastax distro)
- [Install Cassandra 2.1 on Mac OS X] (http://exponential.io/blog/2015/01/28/install-cassandra-2_1-on-mac-os-x/)
- [This Gist] (https://gist.github.com/Micka33/89897e1490240a56c036)
The following document describes setting up Cassandra as a service. If you are interested in running Cassandra in userspace, check out the instructions in MacOS Developer Setup for React, React Native, Node and Cassandra Development.
Installation using home brew
In order to install Cassandra and cqlsh
we will need to run:
In order to check the installation used
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Here is a typical result:
Starting Cassandra
In order to launch the Cassandra server use:
In order to set Cassandra to start upon login use:
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In order to verify that Cassandra is running use:
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For more detailed explannation please refer to the excellent Christopher Batey's Blog Post.
Troubleshooting
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By default the Cassandra data files are stored at:
Cassandra can also be started manually in terminal by running:
Some components by default are at:
The data by default is stored at:
Reducing the amount of memory used
Very often on a development machine it would be natural to reduce the amount of memory that Cassandra is using. While going below the minimum settings for memory is not advised for production instances, as far as development goes it is perfectly fine. In the example below the total amount of memory for Cassandra will be around 700-800 MB.
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In /usr/local/etc/cassandra/cassandra-env.sh
modify: