DataStax Community Edition is a free packaged distribution of Apache Cassandra™ made available by DataStax. There’s no faster, easier way to get started with Cassandra than to download, install, and use DataStax Community Edition.
DataStax Community consists of several components:
The following is a list of platforms supported by DataStax Community. The table below shows supported operating systems, the system architecture and their functionality with DataStax Community versions.
| Operating System | Architecture | 1.x |
|---|---|---|
| Centos | ||
| Centos 5.5-6.x | x86 | Dev only |
| Centos 6.x | x86_64 | Full |
| Centos 5.6 | x86_64 | Full |
| Centos 5.5 | x86_64 | Full |
| Debian | ||
| Debian 5.x-6.x | x86 | Dev only |
| Debian 6.x | x86_64 | Full |
| Debian 5.x | x86_64 | Full |
| Mac | ||
| OSX 10.6 | x86, x86_64 | Dev only |
| OSX 10.5 | x86, x86_64 | Dev only |
| Red Hat | ||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5-6.x | x86 | Dev only |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x | x86_64 | Full |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 | x86_64 | Full |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 | x86_64 | Full |
| Ubuntu | ||
| Ubuntu 10.x-12.x | x86 | Dev only |
| Ubuntu 12.04 | x86_64 | Full |
| Ubuntu 11.x | x86_64 | Full |
| Ubuntu 10.x | x86_64 | Full |
| Windows | ||
| Windows 2008 Server | x86, x86_64 | Dev only |
| Windows 7 | x86, x86_64 | Dev only |