Kinetica Developer Edition (totally free!)
Install and run Kinetica on your local machine as a Docker container. The Developer Edition is your free forever personal copy of Kinetica and comes complete with pre-loaded examples and datasets.
Follow the steps below:
1
Get the Container
Requires Docker with at least 8GB of RAM allocated.
curl https://files.kinetica.com/install/kinetica.sh -o kinetica && chmod u+x kinetica && ./kinetica start
Requires Docker with at least 8GB of RAM allocated, Windows 10 2017 or later.
curl https://files.kinetica.com/install/kinetica.bat -o kinetica.bat && .\kinetica.bat start
2
Start Kinetica
The Kinetica shell script manages your installation, starts, and stops the database.
For GPU instances:
./kinetica --gpu start
For CPU instances:
./kinetica start
For more commands and configuration options:
./kinetica --help
3
Launch Workbench
Workbench is an interactive notebook environment for querying, analyzing and visualizing your data with SQL. You can launch it via your browser using the following link localhost:8000/workbench/. The default username is admin.
4
Other commands
Stop Kinetica
./kinetica stop
Change password
The default username is “admin.” You will be prompted to set a password for this username during the installation process. To change it later, use the command below.
./kinetica alter-password
For more commands and configuration options:
./kinetica --help
Need help?
Having installation issues? Or want to ask a question?
