diff --git a/pkgs/servers/nosql/cassandra/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/nosql/cassandra/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4a0511de0662
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/nosql/cassandra/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, jre, python, makeWrapper}:
+
+let version = "2.1.0";
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "cassandra-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://apache.cs.utah.edu/cassandra/${version}/apache-${name}-bin.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "da99c4ebc8de925dc6b493443b70d2183cf3090b1aad6b6b918efa9565f264dd";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir $out
+    mv * $out
+
+    for cmd in cassandra nodetool sstablekeys sstableloader sstableupgrade
+      do wrapProgram $out/bin/$cmd --set JAVA_HOME ${jre}
+    done
+
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/cqlsh --prefix PATH : ${python}
+    '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://cassandra.apache.org/";
+    description = "Apache Cassandra™ is a massively scalable open source NoSQL database.";
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index bd19493ce3ee..04877a3a26fb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7093,6 +7093,8 @@ let
     sslSupport = true;
   });
 
+  cassandra = callPackage ../servers/nosql/cassandra { };
+
   apache-jena = callPackage ../servers/nosql/apache-jena/binary.nix {
     java = icedtea7_jdk;
   };