ecoblockchain / bigchaindb

A scalable blockchain database

BigchainDB

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://bigchaindb.readthedocs.org/

Getting started

Install RethinkDB on Ubuntu

# install rethinkdb https://rethinkdb.com/docs/install/ubuntu/
$ source /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt $DISTRIB_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list
$ wget -qO- http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rethinkdb

# start rethinkdb
$ rethinkdb

Install BigchainDB

$ pip install bigchaindb

Running BigchainDB

Currently BigchainDB only supports Python 3.4+

Start the main process. If it's the first time bigchaindb will generate a default configuration file for you.

$ bigchaindb start

Generate some tests transactions:

$ bigchaindb-benchmark load # add '-m' if you want to use all your cores

To know more about the bigchain command run

$ bigchaindb -h

Importing BigchainDB from the interpreter (python/ipython)

Make sure your rethinkdb process is running.

>>> from bigchaindb import Bigchain
>>> b = Bigchain()
>>> b.me
'2B8C8PJxhycFzn4wncRhBNmMWwE5Frr9nLBUa1dGGxj5W'

Configuration

BigchainDB creates a default configuration file on $HOME/.bigchaindb on the first run.

$ bigchaindb show-config

Testing

$ py.test -v