How do start apache cassandra?

africaele

In the installation we have a installation directory /home/<user>/cassandra. The directory contains the binaries for Cassandra.

Add the Cassandra bin directory to you path (temporary method)

$ export PATH=$PATH:/home/<user>/cassandra/bin

Run the Cassandra daemon.
In foreground.

$ cassandra -f

In background

$ cassandra

When you see the message below, Cassandra has started.

INFO  18:47:35 Starting listening for CQL clients