Hi Paulo, It is safe to use Cassandra 1.2.8 for the BIE. The instructions that you link to are old and some of the information is not current. Please let us know if you have any issues? Regards Natasha From: Paulo André <pfilipak@gmail.com<mailto:pfilipak@gmail.com>> Date: Friday, 11 April 2014 9:04 AM To: "ala-portal@lists.gbif.org<mailto:ala-portal@lists.gbif.org>" <ala-portal@lists.gbif.org<mailto:ala-portal@lists.gbif.org>> Subject: [Ala-portal] cassandra Hi We've been used Cassandra 1.2.8 on Ala-portal. https://code.google.com/p/ala-portal/wiki/GettingStarted?tm=6 Now, we are going deploy Ala-bie, but it use Cassandra 1.0.7. https://code.google.com/p/ala-bie/wiki/BieInitialSetup Could we use Cassandra 1.2.8 on both applications? Is it possible? BR Paulo André Filipak