Starting Cassandra as a stand-alone process

Start the Cassandra Java server process for binary installations.

Procedure

On initial start-up, each node must be started one at a time, starting with your seed nodes.

To start Cassandra in the background:

$ cd <install_location> 
$ bin/cassandra

To start Cassandra in the foreground:

$ cd <install_location>
$ bin/cassandra -f

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