#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
- An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) that supports a broad range of queries and analysis over semistructured data
- A parallel runtime query execution engine, 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.ics.uci.edu/] (http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/)
##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 3.1.1 or newer.
- Java 7 or newer.
Additionally to run all the integration tests you should be running sshd locally, and have passwordless ssh logins enabled for the account which is running the tests.
##Documentation
AsterixDB's official documentation resides at [http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/documentation/index.html] (http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/documentation/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 release 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.incubator.apache.org. Join the list by sending an email to users-subscribe@asterixdb.incubator.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.incubator.apache.org, by sending an email to dev-subscribe@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org.