#AsterixDB
AsterixDB is a BDMS (Big Data Management System) with a rich feature set that sets it apart from other Big Data platforms. Its feature set makes it well-suited to modern needs such as web data warehousing and social data storage and analysis. AsterixDB has:
- A semistructured NoSQL style data model (ADM) resulting from extending JSON with object database ideas
- Two expressive and declarative query languages (SQL++ and AQL) that support a broad range of queries and analysis over semistructured data
- A parallel runtime query execution engine, Apache Hyracks, that has been scale-tested on up to 1000+ cores and 500+ disks
- Partitioned LSM-based data storage and indexing to support efficient ingestion and management of semistructured data
- Support for query access to externally stored data (e.g., data in HDFS) as well as to data stored natively by AsterixDB
- A rich set of primitive data types, including spatial and temporal data in addition to integer, floating point, and textual data
- Secondary indexing options that include B+ trees, R trees, and inverted keyword (exact and fuzzy) index types
- Support for fuzzy and spatial queries as well as for more traditional parametric queries
- Basic transactional (concurrency and recovery) capabilities akin to those of a NoSQL store
Learn more about AsterixDB at [http://asterixdb.apache.org] (http://asterixdb.apache.org)
##Building AsterixDB
To build AsterixDB from source, you should have a platform with the following:
- A Unix-ish environment (Linux, OS X, will all do).
- git
- Maven 3.3.9 or newer.
- Java 8 or newer.
Instructions for building the master:
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Checkout AsterixDB master:
$git clone https://github.com/apache/asterixdb.git -
Build AsterixDB master:
$cd asterixdb $mvn clean package -DskipTests
##Running AsterixDB (on your machine from your build) Here are steps to get AsterixDB running on your local machine:
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Start a single-machine AsterixDB instance:
$cd asterixdb/asterix-server/target/asterix-server-*-binary-assembly/ $./samples/local/bin/start-sample-cluster.sh -
Good to go and run queries in your browser at:
http://localhost:19001 -
Read more documentations to learn the data model, query language, and how to create a cluster instance: [https://ci.apache.org/projects/asterixdb/index.html] (https://ci.apache.org/projects/asterixdb/index.html)
##Documentation
AsterixDB's official documentation resides at [https://ci.apache.org/projects/asterixdb/index.html] (https://ci.apache.org/projects/asterixdb/index.html). This is built from the maven project under asterix-doc/ as a maven site. The documentation on the official website refers to the most stable build version, so for pre-release versions one should refer to the compiled documentation.
##Support/Contact
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on our mailing list, users@asterixdb.apache.org. Join the list by sending an email to users-subscribe@asterixdb.apache.org. If you are interested in the internals or developement of AsterixDB, also please feel free to subscribe to our developer mailing list, dev@asterixdb.apache.org, by sending an email to dev-subscribe@asterixdb.apache.org.