How to Install Apache Cassandra 3.11.x on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Apache Cassandra is a free and open source NoSQL database management system that is designed to provide scalability, high availability, and uncompromised performance. In this article will guide you through installing the latest stable release of Apache Cassandra, Apache Cassandra 3.11.2, on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server instance. Step 1: Install OpenJDK JRE 8 Apache Cassandra requires the latest release of Java 8. For that you can choose to install the latest release of OpenJDK JRE 1.8 as below: sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre -y Having OpenJDK JRE 1.8 installed, you can confirm the installation result: java -version The output will be similar to the following: openjdk version "1.8.0_151" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_151-8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2-b12) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.151-b12, mixed mode) Optionally, you can create the JAVA_HOME environment variable as follows: echo ...