diff --git a/pkgs/servers/nosql/cassandra/3.0.nix b/pkgs/servers/nosql/cassandra/3.0.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..050042eac5a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/nosql/cassandra/3.0.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+{ stdenv
+, fetchurl
+, jre
+, python
+, makeWrapper
+, gawk
+, bash
+, getopt
+, procps
+}:
+
+let
+
+  version = "3.0.7";
+  sha256 = "0g4nf9zw3by8api9c8np0ixianmwcldcq2mpkqqirj0zlpiii68d";
+
+in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "cassandra-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    inherit sha256;
+    url = "mirror://apache/cassandra/${version}/apache-${name}-bin.tar.gz";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir $out
+    mv * $out
+
+    for cmd in cassandra nodetool sstableloader sstableupgrade
+      do wrapProgram $out/bin/$cmd \
+        --set JAVA_HOME ${jre} \
+        --prefix PATH : ${stdenv.lib.makeBinPath [ bash getopt gawk procps ]}
+    done
+
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/cqlsh --prefix PATH : ${python}/bin
+    '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://cassandra.apache.org/;
+    description = "A massively scalable open source NoSQL database";
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ nckx rushmorem ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e23dceefb324..63df5b3cce83 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9849,7 +9849,8 @@ in
   cassandra_1_2 = callPackage ../servers/nosql/cassandra/1.2.nix { };
   cassandra_2_0 = callPackage ../servers/nosql/cassandra/2.0.nix { };
   cassandra_2_1 = callPackage ../servers/nosql/cassandra/2.1.nix { };
-  cassandra = self.cassandra_2_1;
+  cassandra_3_0 = callPackage ../servers/nosql/cassandra/3.0.nix { };
+  cassandra = self.cassandra_3_0;
 
   apache-jena = callPackage ../servers/nosql/apache-jena/binary.nix {
     java = jdk;