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    ScalarDB Server

    ScalarDB Server is a gRPC server that implements ScalarDB interface. With ScalarDB Server, you can use ScalarDB features from multiple programming languages that are supported by gRPC.

    Currently, we provide only a Java client officially, and we will support other language clients officially in the future. Of course, you can generate language-specific client stubs by yourself. However, note that it is not necessarily straightforward to implement a client since it's using a bidirectional streaming RPC in gRPC, and you need to be familiar with it.

    This document explains how to install and use ScalarDB Server.

    Install prerequisites​

    ScalarDB Server is written in Java. So the following software is required to run it.

    Install ScalarDB Server​

    We have Docker images in our repository and zip archives of ScalarDB Server available in releases.

    If you are interested in building from source, run the following command:

    ./gradlew installDist

    Of course, you can archive the jar and libraries by ./gradlew distZip and so on.

    Configure ScalarDB Server​

    You need a property file holding the configuration for ScalarDB Server. It contains two sections, Server configurations and Underlying storage/database configurations.

    #
    # Server configurations
    #

    # Port number of ScalarDB Server. 60051 by default
    #scalar.db.server.port=60051

    # Prometheus exporter port. Use 8080 if this is not given. Prometheus exporter will not be started if a negative number is given.
    #scalar.db.server.prometheus_exporter_port=8080

    #
    # Underlying storage/database configurations
    #

    # Comma separated contact points
    scalar.db.contact_points=localhost

    # Port number for all the contact points. Default port number for each database is used if empty.
    #scalar.db.contact_port=9042

    # Credential information to access the database
    #scalar.db.username=cassandra
    #scalar.db.password=cassandra

    # Storage implementation. Either cassandra or cosmos or dynamo or jdbc can be set. Default storage is cassandra.
    #scalar.db.storage=cassandra

    Start ScalarDB Server​

    For Docker images, you can start ScalarDB Server with the following commands:

    docker pull ghcr.io/scalar-labs/scalardb-server:<version>
    docker run -v <your local property file path>:/scalardb/server/database.properties -d ghcr.io/scalar-labs/scalardb-server:<version>

    For zip archives, you can start ScalarDB Server with the following commands:

    unzip scalardb-server-<version>.zip
    cd scalardb-server-<version>
    bin/scalardb-server --config <your property file path>

    Usage of the Java client of ScalarDB Server​

    You can use the Java client of ScalarDB Server in almost the same way as other storages/databases. The difference is that you need to set scalar.db.storage and scalar.db.transaction_manager to grpc in your client side property file.

    # Comma separated contact points
    scalar.db.contact_points=<ScalarDB Server host>

    # Port number for all the contact points
    scalar.db.contact_port=60051

    # Storage implementation
    scalar.db.storage=grpc

    # The type of the transaction manager
    scalar.db.transaction_manager=grpc

    Further documentation​

    ScalarDB Server Sample