從apache官網下載最新的cassandra，目前最新的版本是2.1.2

解壓，放到一個固定目錄下。

修改conf/cassandra.yaml

替換其中的var/lib/cassandra/ 為安裝目錄

修改conf/logback.xml

替換其中的${cassandra.logdir} 為安裝目錄

配置環境變數

新增環境變數CASSANDRA_HOME，值為安裝目錄，然後新增path環境變數為%CASSANDRA_HOME%\bin

啟動

進入命令列工具，輸入cassandra然後回車，顯示如下說明啟動成功。

INFO  02:49:53 Enqueuing flush of local: 49395 (0%) on-heap, 0 (0%) off-heap
INFO  02:49:53 Writing 
 
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INFO  02:49:53 Completed flushing D:\Program Files\apache-cassandra-2.1.2\data\data\system\local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377\syste
sition(segmentId=1419389392265, position=98921)
INFO  02:49:53 Node localhost/127.0.0.1 state jump to normal
INFO  02:49:53 Compacted 4 sstables to [D:\Program Files\apache-cassandra-2.1.2\data\data\system\local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377
n 218ms = 0.024979MB/s.  4 total partitions merged to 1.  Partition merge counts were {4:1, }
INFO  02:49:53 Netty using Java NIO event loop
INFO  02:49:53 Using Netty Version: [netty-buffer=netty-buffer-4.0.23.Final.208198c, netty-codec=netty-codec-4.0.23.Final.208198c, nett
ocks=netty-codec-socks-4.0.23.Final.208198c, netty-common=netty-common-4.0.23.Final.208198c, netty-handler=netty-handler-4.0.23.Final.2
ty-transport-rxtx=netty-transport-rxtx-4.0.23.Final.208198c, netty-transport-sctp=netty-transport-sctp-4.0.23.Final.208198c, netty-tran
INFO  02:49:53 Starting listening for CQL clients on localhost/127.0.0.1:9042...
INFO  02:49:53 Binding thrift service to localhost/127.0.0.1:9160
INFO  02:49:53 Listening for thrift clients...
 

啟動客戶端工具

重新啟動一個命令列，輸入cassandra-cli，然後回車，顯示如下：

Microsoft Windows [版本 6.1.7601]
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C:\Users\Administrator>cassandra-cli
Starting Cassandra Client
Connected to: "Test Cluster" on 127.0.0.1/9160
Welcome to Cassandra CLI version 2.1.2

The CLI is deprecated and will be removed in Cassandra 3.0.  Consider migrating to cqlsh.
CQL is fully backwards compatible with Thrift data; see http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/thrift-to-cql3

Type 'help;' or '?' for help.
Type 'quit;' or 'exit;' to quit.

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啟動過程中遇到的錯誤

1：
Windows PowerShell 內部錯誤。載入託管的 Windows PowerShell 失敗，返回錯誤 80070002。
WARNING! Powershell script execution unavailable.
   Please use 'powershell Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted'
   on this user-account to run cassandra with fully featured
   functionality on this platform.
Starting with legacy startup options
Starting Cassandra Server
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for 2097152KB object heap

解決辦法：
安裝補丁Windows Management Framework 4.0 (KB2819745)可解決.
地址:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40855


2：
Could not reserve enough space for 2097152KB object heap

解決辦法：
修改 cassandra.bat 中的JVM引數
set JAVA_OPTS=-ea^
 -javaagent:"%CASSANDRA_HOME%\lib\jamm-0.2.8.jar"^
 -Xms512m^
 -Xmx512m^