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Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week

By : Sudarshan Kadambi, Xun (Brian) Wu
Book Image

Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week

By: Sudarshan Kadambi, Xun (Brian) Wu

Overview of this book

This is the golden age of open source NoSQL databases. With enterprises having to work with large amounts of unstructured data and moving away from expensive monolithic architecture, the adoption of NoSQL databases is rapidly increasing. Being familiar with the popular NoSQL databases and knowing how to use them is a must for budding DBAs and developers. This book introduces you to the different types of NoSQL databases and gets you started with seven of the most popular NoSQL databases used by enterprises today. We start off with a brief overview of what NoSQL databases are, followed by an explanation of why and when to use them. The book then covers the seven most popular databases in each of these categories: MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, HBase, Cassandra, In?uxDB, and Neo4j. The book doesn't go into too much detail about each database but teaches you enough to get started with them. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of the different NoSQL databases and their functionalities, empowering you to select and use the right database according to your needs.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Installation and configuration


In this section, we will discuss how to install InfluxDB and set up InfluxDB configuration.

Installing InfluxDB

To install InfluxDB, the official installation guide can be found here: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.5/introduction/installation/.

Ubuntu is built from the Debian distribution. In this chapter, we use Ubuntu as the lab environment to run InfluxDB. Here is a link to install Ubuntu in a VirtualBox: https://askubuntu.com/questions/142549/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-virtualbox.

Once Ubuntu is installed in your VM, we will install InfluxDB in Ubuntu. We use the apt-get package manager to install InfluxDB. Enter the following five commands:

curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/InfluxDB.key | sudo apt-key add -
source /etc/lsb-release
echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/${DISTRIB_ID,,} ${DISTRIB_CODENAME} stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/InfluxDB.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install influxdb
sudo systemctl start influxdb...