There have been tons of threads/convos on this. In the early days of Java 7 it was pretty unstable and there was pretty much no convincing reason to use Java 7 over Java 6.
Now that Java 7 has stabilized and Java 6 is EOL it's a reasonable decision to use Java 7 and we do it in production with no issues to speak of. That being said there was one potential situation we've seen as a community where bootstrapping new node was using 3x more CPU and getting significantly less throughput. However, reproducing this consistently never happened AFAIK. I think until more people use Java 7 in production and prove it doesn't cause any additional bugs/performance issues Datastax will update their docs. Until now I'd say it's a safe bet to use Java 7 with Vanilla C* 1.2.1. I hope this helps! Best, Michael From: Baron Schwartz <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 7:21 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Why do Datastax docs recommend Java 6? The Datastax docs repeatedly say (e.g. http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/install/install_jre) that Java 7 is not recommended, but they don't say why. It would be helpful to know this. Does anyone know? The same documentation is referenced from the Cassandra wiki, for example, http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted - Baron
