If you want to try the Cassandra Universal Driver effortless download this virtual image:

For Virtual Box

Released on 16th April 2014.

Based on C.U.D. Version 1.14 it has everything pre-configured and the following packets:

• Base: Ubuntu server 13.10 64 bit
• Apache
• PHP
• Oracle Java RE 1.7.0_51-b13 64 bit
• Cassandra (listening on all ports)
• MySql
• C.U.D. with samples (git clone on /home/ubuntu/cassandra-universal-driver)
• htop
• mc
• lynx

Simply download it, play it, and visit your ip /sample_www_form.php

Download: CassandraUniversalDriver-v1.14.zip size ~1 GB

username: ubuntu

password: ubuntu

It is configured to take 2 GB of RAM, and 1 core, and is using for real 1,35 GB of RAM.

Please take in count that running from a virtual machine is not so fast as running on a physical server.