How to Install Apache Cassandra on Raspberry Pi

Cassandra is a free and open-source NoSQL, distributed database management system that handles a large amount of data across commodity servers with high scalability. It provides users the freedom to work on creating a database without compromising performance. It has proven its effectiveness on a large cluster of almost 1000 nodes and with hundreds of real-world used cases. It is beneficial for applications that can’t afford to lose their data in case of complete data center failure.

If you are interested in working with Cassandra on Raspberry Pi, follow this article to install it on your system.

How to Install Cassandra on Raspberry Pi

Cassandra isn’t available in the default Raspberry Pi system repository; however, you can manually install it on the system through the following steps:

Step 1: Download Cassandra Latest Deb File

Follow the link here to find the latest version of Cassandra deb file and download it on your Raspberry Pi system through the “wget” command.

The latest version is “4.1”, which can be downloaded on Raspberry Pi from the following command:

$ wget https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/debian/pool/main/c/cassandra/cassandra_4.1~alpha1_all.deb

Step 2: Install Cassandra Through Deb File

To install Cassandra on Raspberry Pi through the deb file, use the following “apt” installation command, ensure that you are in the same directory where file is downloaded:

$ sudo apt install ./cassandra_4.1~alpha1_all.deb

Once the installation is done, you can confirm the Cassandra installation using the following command:

$ cassandra -v

Step 3: Check Cassandra Status

To confirm Cassandra service is active on Raspberry Pi, you can use the following command:

$ sudo systemctl status cassandra

To run Cassandra on Raspberry Pi, execute the following command:

$ cqlsh

At this point, you can begin working on creating a database on Raspberry Pi using Cassandra.

Conclusion

Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database management system that you can install on Raspberry Pi through the deb package, which can be downloaded from the official source. After the installation, you have to confirm the running status of Cassandra before beginning to create a database through it by executing the “cqlsh” command in the Raspberry Pi terminal.