Apache Ignite 3 Beta 1

Apache Ignite is a distributed database for high-performance computing with in-memory speed.

Ignite 3 is the next generation of the platform that will support a modernized modular architecture, along with improved usability and developer experience.

The current beta version includes the following features:

  • RPM and DEB packages: simplified installation and node management with system services.
  • Client's Partition Awareness: Clients are now aware of data distribution over the cluster nodes which helps avoid additional network transmissions and lowers operations latency.
  • C++ client: Basic C++ client, able to perform operations on data.
  • Autogenerated values: now a function can be specified as a default value generator during a table creation. Currently only gen_random_uuid is supported.
  • SQL Transactions.
  • Transactional Protocol: improved locking model, multi-version based lock-free read-only transactions.
  • Storage: A number of improvements to memory-only and on-disk engines based on Page Memory.
  • Indexes: Basic functionality, hash and sorted indexes.
  • Client logging: A LoggerFactory may be provided during client creation to specify a custom logger for logs generated by the client.
  • Metrics framework: Collection and export of cluster metrics.

Installation

  1. Download Ignite 3 Beta 1:
    curl -L "https://www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi?action=download&filename=ignite/3.0.0-beta1/ignite3-3.0.0-beta1.zip" -o ignite3-3.0.0-beta1.zip
  2. Unzip the downloaded file:
    unzip ignite3-3.0.0-beta1.zip && cd ignite3-db-3.0.0-beta1
  3. Add your installation directory to the PATH environment variable:
    export IGNITE_HOME=$(pwd)
  4. (optional) If you start the cluster locally then install the core artifacts:
    sh $IGNITE_HOME/bin/ignite3-db.sh start

Running Examples

Examples are shipped as a separate Maven project, which is located in the examples folder. To start running you simply need to import provided pom.xml file into your favourite IDE.

The following examples are included:

  • RecordViewExample - demonstrates the usage of the org.apache.ignite.table.RecordView API
  • KeyValueViewExample - demonstrates the usage of the org.apache.ignite.table.KeyValueView API
  • SqlJdbcExample - demonstrates the usage of the Apache Ignite JDBC driver.
  • SqlApiExample - demonstrates the usage of the Java API for SQL.
  • VolatilePageMemoryStorageExample - demonstrates the usage of the PageMemory storage engine configured with an in-memory data region.
  • PersistentPageMemoryStorageExample - demonstrates the usage of the PageMemory storage engine configured with a persistent data region.

To run any other example, do the following:

  1. Import the examples project into your IDE.
  2. Start a server node using the startup script:
    sh $IGNITE_HOME/bin/ignite3-db start
  3. (optional) Setup ignite3-cli in your terminal:
   cd  ignite3-cli-3.0.0-beta1
   alias ignite3="$(pwd)/bin/ignite3" >> ~/.bash_profile
   source bin/ignite_completion.sh
  1. (optional) If the cluster is not initialized then initialize the cluster:
    ignite3 cluster init --cluster-name=ignite-cluster --cluster-endpoint-url=http://localhost:10300 --meta-storage-node=defauldNode
  2. Run the preferred example in the IDE.

Using CLI

Beta 1 leverages the advantage of using the CLI for the development. Updated CLI ships the following features:

  • Bash auto-completions. If you are using bash/zsh you can hit the TAB during typing ignite commands.
  • Interactive mode. Enter the interactive by running ignite without arguments.
  • SQL REPL. Run SQL queries right from your terminal with ignite sql command.