- Windows 7 or Windows 2008 server
- Java
- Either the Firefox or Chrome web browser for DataStax OpsCenter (which does'nt support Internet Explorer yet). There is a dependency on the Visual C++ 2008 runtime (32bit), but windows 7 and windows 2008 Server R2 to be already installed. If you need it, then refer the link.
DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra which is available in Linux rpm, deb, and tar packages, a windows MSI installer and a Mac OS Xbinary.