RethinkDB provides a free, open-source, and scalable database system with real-time features suitable for web development and monitoring.
If you need a database management system with native multi-model and capabilities that makes building Realtime apps easy, you may want to look at RethinkDB.
RethinkDB uses JSON to query documents using Python, Ruby, Node.js, and many other languages right out of the box. Building your apps using the database system should do your job using its intuitive web UI.
This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install RethinkDB on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 LTS servers.
For more about RethinkDB, please visit its homepage.
If you want to test it in your lab environment before going out and using it in production, the steps below should be a great place to start. Follow the steps below to get RethinkDB installed on Ubuntu.
Install Required Packages
To get the latest version of RethinkDB, you can either use it.DEB file from its website or add its official repository to Ubuntu. However, some required packages may be needed for the installation to work.
First, run the commands below to install apt-transport-https.
sudo apt update sudo apt install apt-transport-https
After installing the package above, continue below to install RethinkDB.
Install RethinkDB
Now that some required packages are installed follow the steps below to get RethinkDB installed and configured. Suppose you don’t want to install the RethinkDB from its manually.DEB file, then add RethinkDB’s official package repository to make installing and updating it easier.
To add the RethinkDB repository and key, run the commands below. The first line imports the repository’s GPG key. The second adds the RethinkDB repository into a new file called rethinkdb. List.
wget -qO- https://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add - source /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt $DISTRIB_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list
After the steps above, run the commands below to install them.
sudo apt update sudo apt install rethinkdb
After installing, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable the RethinkDB service.
sudo systemctl stop rethinkdb sudo systemctl start rethinkdb sudo systemctl enable rethinkdb
To verify that RethinkDB is installed and running, run the commands below check its status.
sudo systemctl status rethinkdb
You should see similar lines as shown below:
● rethinkdb.service - LSB: This starts a set of rethinkdb server instances.
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/rethinkdb; generated)
Active: active (exited) since Tue 2019-04-23 12:03:50 CDT; 22s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Tasks: 0 (limit: 4683)
CGroup: /system.slice/rethinkdb.service
Apr 23 12:03:50 ubuntu1804 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: This starts a set of rethinkdb server instances.
Apr 23 12:03:50 ubuntu1804 rethinkdb[19021]: rethinkdb: No instances defined in /etc/rethinkdb/instances.d
Apr 23 12:03:50 ubuntu1804 rethinkdb[19021]: rethinkdb: See http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/guides/startup/
Apr 23 12:03:50 ubuntu1804 systemd[1]: Started LSB: This starts a set of rethinkdb server instances.
That should do it!
Install RethinkDB from Source
If RethinkDB’s repository doesn’t have packages for your system just yet, you may want to install it from the source manually. Unfortunately, at this time of this writing, Ubuntu 18.04 wasn’t supported.
So, to install RethinkDB from the source, run the commands below to install the required packages for building the app.
sudo apt update sudo apt install build-essential protobuf-compiler python curl libprotobuf-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libboost-all-dev libncurses5-dev libjemalloc-dev wget m4
Next, run the commands below to download its archived that, which includes version 2.3.6.
cd /tmp wget https://download.rethinkdb.com/dist/rethinkdb-2.3.6.tgz tar xf rethinkdb-2.3.6.tgz
After extracting the downloaded archive, change it into the directory and install it.
cd rethinkdb-2.3.6
./configure --allow-fetch
make
sudo make install
That should install RethinkDB on your system.
After installing, run the commands below to configure it quickly.
sudo cp /etc/rethinkdb/default.conf.sample /etc/rethinkdb/instances.d/instance1.conf sudo nano /etc/rethinkdb/instances.d/instance1.conf
Then enable the default HTTP port number when the file opens,
## r.http(.) queries will use the given server as a web proxy
### Web options
## Port for the http admin console
## Default: 8080 + port-offset
http-port=8080
## Disable web administration console
# no-http-admin
Save the file and exit.
After that, use the commands below to start, stop and restart.
sudo /etc/init.d/rethinkdb stop sudo /etc/init.d/rethinkdb start sudo /etc/init.d/rethinkdb restart
Access RethinkDB Web Interface
RethinkDB also comes with a web interface for easy management in your web browser. To log in, go to the server’s IP address followed by port # 8080
http://127.0.0.1:8080
Enjoy!
Congratulations! You have successfully installed RethinkDB on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.05
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