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== Introduction ==
Cassandra is an advanced topic, and while work is always underway to make things easier, it can still be daunting to get up and running for the first time. This document aims to provide a few easy to follow steps to take the first-time user from installation, to an operational Cassandra cluster.

== Step 1: Picking a version ==
 1. Stable releases
  Cassandra stable releases are well tested and reasonably free of serious problems, (or at least the problems are known and well documented). If you are setting up a production environment, a stable release is what you want. 

  Download links for the latest stable release can always be found on the [http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/#download website].

 1. Betas and release candidates
  Betas are prototype releases considered ready for user testing, and release candidates have the potential to become the next stable release. These releases represent the state-of-the-art so are often the best place to start, and since APIs and on-disk storage formats can change between major versions this can also save you from an upgrade. The testing and feedback is also highly appreciated. 

  When available, beta and release candidates can be downloaded from [http://localhost FIXME].

 1. Nightly builds
  Nightly builds represent the current state of development as of the time of the build. They contain all of the previous days new features, fixes, and newly introduced bugs. The only guarantee they come with is that they successfully build and the unit tests pass. Nightly builds are a handy way of testing recent changes, or accessing the latest features and fixes not found in beta or release candidates, but there is some risk of them being buggy. 

  The most recent nightly build can be downloaded [http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Cassandra/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/cassandra/build/ here].

 1. SVN trunk
  SVN trunk is...

== Step 2: Running a single node ==

== Step 3: Running a cluster ==

== Step 4: Write your application ==

== If Something Goes Wrong ==