After downloading the required files from the repo. Follow the instructions as shown bellow.
Make sure before you are downloading the software, you need to have java and python. Otherwise it will raise errors.
- Go to the edit environment variables settings. Add the following paths to the path variable as shown in the picture below.
- Casendra\apache-cassandra-3.11.8-bin.tar\apache-cassandra-3.11.8
- Casendra\apache-cassandra-3.11.8-bin.tar\apache-cassandra-3.11.8\bin
- After adding the reuired paths now you can open your terminal. To start the server type "cassandra" as shown in the picture below.
- Once the server is started you can open a new terminal, and type "cqlsh" to start the cassandra as shown in the picture below.
Now you are good to go, you can start using the cassandra.