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These are my notes on getting Cassandra going on macOS. Took me a while to figure it all out, so I’m documenting them here for when I need to do it again.
These notes are correct as of November 4, 2017, but I expect that they will go stale before to long. At this moment in time: brew cask install java installs Java 9, and brew install cassandra installs Cassandra 3.11.1. But Cassandra 3.11.1 does not work with Java 9, it requires Java 8. The only option at the moment appears to downgrade to Java 8. To do this: