Santosh Kangane

I thought, setting up Distributed, NOSQL, Big Data must be a complex process. However, when I actually did it for cassandra, I found it like installing some simple OS package !!!.. Cassandra is too simple to setup and play around it. I found it more like plug and play engine. The Cassandra database very well explained in Book : O’Reilly Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, Nov 2010   So, Here is how to do it…. A) Pre requisites : jdk1.6 or grater version.        If you don’t have, you can download and configure it. How ? B) Cassandra on Linux           1. Create user for cassandra root@PTS0012:/usr/lib# id cassandra uid=506(cassandra) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) root@PTS0012:/usr/lib# 2. Create Dir for cassandra database root@PTS0012:/usr/lib# mkdir -p /var/log/cassandra root@PTS0012:/usr/lib# chown -R cassandra /var/log/cassandra root@PTS0012:/usr/lib# mkdir -p /...