Getting started.

[pims]

Hi Nathan and all,

I was wondering what was the recommended setup to get started with
ElephantDB.
Before deploying EDB to a cluster, I’d love to be able to get familiar
with it in my local environment.

I’ve scoured the web for a 'Getting started with EDB guide' but to no
avail.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

– Tim

[nathanmarz]

Hi Tim,

Check out this tutorial if you haven't already:
http://tech.backtype.com/introducing-elephantdb-a-distributed-database

See this thread to see how you can export an EDB domain with plain old
MapReduce: http://groups.google.com/group/elephantdb-user/browse_thread/thread/7a73725efda34c2a
. If you're running Hadoop in local mode, it will output to your local
filesystem.

To start an elephantdb server, run the class elephantdb.main with the
following three arguments:

1. location of ring configuration on distributed filesystem (or local
filesystem if that's how you configured the dfs)
2. location of the local configuration
3. a "token": EDB remembers this token. If you give it a different
token than it had before, it will reload all domains from scratch on
startup. Otherwise, it will start up with the data it has cached
locally.

Let me know if that's unclear or you have any more questions.

-Nathan