Working with Apache Cassandra on Mac OS X

The text provides a step-by-step guide to installing Apache Cassandra and DataStax OpsCenter on Mac OS X. It explains how to download and set up Cassandra, its utilities, and use DataStax OpsCenter, which is a browser-based visual management and monitoring tool for Cassandra. The text also covers the installation of DataStax Community Edition from Planet Cassandra, using the curl command on Mac to directly download files, creating keyspaces and column families in Cassandra, and querying data using CQL (Cassandra Query Language). It concludes with instructions for installing DataStax OpsCenter on a Mac.