Distributed wide-column NoSQL database for high availability and linear scale
CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS image by Lynxroute · unique credentials at first boot · CVE-scanned · SBOM and CIS report inside
| Cloud | Version | Software price | Last build | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Marketplace EC2 AMI · all commercial regions | 5.0.9 | $0.05/hr Recommended instance: t3.medium · 5-day free trial | 2026-09-04 | Listing ↗ |
| Azure Marketplace VM image · plan payg-gen2 · Gen2 | 5.0.9 | $0.028/vCPU/hr Recommended VM: Standard_D2s_v3 | 2026-08-19 | Listing ↗ |
Software price only; cloud infrastructure is billed separately by the provider. Prices in USD.
| Base OS | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS |
| Hardening | CIS Level 1, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (tailored) |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Upstream | Apache Software Foundation |
| Machine-readable | product.json · catalog.json |
Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed NoSQL wide-column database built for high availability and linear scalability with no single point of failure. It runs as a JVM service (Eclipse Temurin 17) and is queried with CQL (Cassandra Query Language) over a native binary protocol on port 9042. Cassandra offers tunable consistency, a masterless peer-to-peer architecture, partitioned wide-column data model with clustering keys, secondary indexes, materialized views, lightweight transactions (Paxos), TTL on data, and time-to-live driven compaction. Data is durably persisted to local disk as SSTables with a commit log, hints, and saved caches. CQL drivers exist for Java, Python, Node.js, Go, C#, and many more. This image ships a single-node deployment, ready to scale into a cluster. Apache-2.0 license - the vendor-neutral upstream distribution, distinct from any commercial Cassandra product.
Security hardening:
OS hardening (CIS Level 1):
Compliance artifacts:
Credentials are generated at first boot and written to /root/cassandra-credentials.txt.
# subscribe once on the AWS Marketplace listing, then:
aws ec2 run-instances \
--image-id resolve:ssm:/aws/service/marketplace/prod-4the4gyktu57m/latest \
--instance-type t3.medium --key-name my-key --security-group-ids sg-xxxxxxxx# accept the plan terms once, then:
az vm image terms accept --publisher lynxroute --offer cassandra --plan payg-gen2
az vm create -g my-rg -n cassandra --size Standard_D2s_v3 \
--image lynxroute:cassandra:payg-gen2:latest --admin-username azureuser --generate-ssh-keys
The most recent release with notes; the full release history is in product.json.