YugaByte Database

YugaByte is a cloud-native database for mission-critical applications. This repository contains the Community Edition of the YugaByte Database. YugaByte supports Apache Cassandra Query Language and Redis APIs, with SQL support on the roadmap.

Here are a few resources for getting started with YugaByte:

• Community Edition Quick Start to get started with YugaByte using a pre-built YugaByte Community Edition package.
• See YugaByte Documentation for architecture, production deployment options and languages supported. In particular, see Architecture / Concepts and Architecture / Core Functions sections.
• See www.yugabyte.com for general information about YugaByte.
• Check out the YugaByte Community Forum and post your questions or comments.

Build Prerequisites

CentOS 7

CentOS 7 is the main recommended development and production platform for YugaByte.

Update packages on your system, install development tools and additional packages:

sudo yum update
sudo yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
sudo yum install -y ruby perl-Digest epel-release cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-plain ccache
sudo yum install -y cmake3 ctest3

Also we expect cmake / ctest binaries to be at least version 3. On CentOS one way to achive this is to symlink them into /usr/local/bin.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/cmake3 /usr/local/bin/cmake
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ctest3 /usr/local/bin/ctest

You could also symlink them into another directory that is on your PATH.

We also use Linuxbrew to provide some of the third-party dependencies on CentOS. We install Linuxbrew in a separate directory, ~/.linuxbrew-yb-build, so that it does not conflict with any other Linuxbrew installation on your workstation, and does not contain any unnecessary packages that would interfere with the build.

git clone [email protected]:linuxbrew/brew.git ~/.linuxbrew-yb-build
~/.linuxbrew-yb-build/bin/brew install autoconf automake boost flex gcc libtool

We don't need to add ~/.linuxbrew-yb-build/bin to PATH. The build scripts will automatically discover this Linuxbrew installation.

Mac OS X

Install Homebrew:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(
  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install the following packages using Homebrew:

brew install autoconf automake bash bison boost ccache cmake coreutils flex gnu-tar libtool \
             pkg-config pstree wget zlib

Also YugaByte build scripts rely on Bash 4. Make sure that which bash outputs /usr/local/bin/bash before proceeding. You may need to put /usr/local/bin as the first directory on PATH in your ~/.bashrc to achieve that.

All platforms: Java prerequisites

YugaByte core is written in C++, but the repository contains Java code needed to run sample applications. To build the Java part, you need:

• JDK 8
• Apache Maven.

Also make sure Maven's bin directory is added to your PATH, e.g. by adding to your ~/.bashrc

export PATH=$HOME/tools/apache-maven-3.5.0/bin:$PATH

if you've installed Maven into ~/tools/apache-maven-3.5.0.

For building YugaByte Java code, you'll need to install Java and Apache Maven.

Cassandra Java Driver

Build and install our modified version of Datastax's Apache Cassandra Java driver. Clients using the unmodified driver will still work, but will be less efficient, because YugaByte and Apache Cassandra use different approaches to splitting data between nodes. In order to route client requests to the right server without extra hops, we provide a custom LoadBalancingPolicy in our version of the driver.

mkdir -p ~/code
cd ~/code
git clone https://github.com/YugaByte/datastax-cassandra-java-driver
cd datastax-cassandra-java-driver
git checkout 3.2.0-yb-5
mvn -DskipTests -Dmaven.javadoc.skip install

Building YugaByte code

Assuming this repository is checked out in ~/code/yugabyte-db, do the following:

cd ~/code/yugabyte-db
./yb_build.sh release --with-assembly

The above command will build the release configuration, put the C++ binaries in build/release-gcc-dynamic-community, and will also create the build/latest symlink to that directory. Then it will build the Java code as well. The --with-assembly flag tells the build script to build the yb-sample-apps.jar file containing sample Java apps.

Running a Local Cluster

Now you can follow the Communty Edition Quick Start / Create local cluster tutorial to create a local cluster and test it using Apache CQL shell and Redis clients, as well as run the provied Java sample apps.

Reporting Issues

Please use GitHub issues to report issues. Also feel free to post on the YugaByte Community Forum.

Contributing

We accept contributions as GitHub pull requests. Our code style is available here (mostly based on Google C++ Style Guide).

License

YugaByte Community Edition is distributed under an Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE.txt file for details.