akshayms / asterixdb

Mirror of Apache AsterixDB

#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:

• 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:

• 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, [email protected]. Join the list by sending an email to [email protected]. If you are interested in the internals or developement of AsterixDB, also please feel free to subscribe to our developer mailing list, [email protected], by sending an email to [email protected].