## Quick Start This section describes how to run YCSB on Apache Geode. ### Get Apache Geode You can download Geode from https://geode.apache.org/releases/ #### Start Geode Cluster Use the Geode shell (gfsh) to start the cluster. You will need to start at-least one locator which is a member discovery service and one or more Geode servers. Launch gfsh: ``` $ cd $GEODE_HOME $ ./bin/gfsh ``` Start a locator and two servers: ``` gfsh> start locator --name=locator1 gfsh> configure pdx --read-serialized=true gfsh> start server --name=server1 --server-port=40404 gfsh> start server --name=server2 --server-port=40405 ``` Create the "usertable" region required by YCSB driver: ``` gfsh>create region --name=usertable --type=PARTITION ``` gfsh has tab autocompletion, so you can play around with various options. ### Start YCSB workload From your YCSB directory, you can run the ycsb workload as follows ``` ./bin/ycsb load geode -P workloads/workloada -p geode.locator=host[port] ``` (default port of locator is 10334). In the default mode, ycsb geode driver will connect as a client to the geode cluster. To make the ycsb driver a peer member of the distributed system use the property `-p geode.topology=p2p -p geode.locator=host[port]` YCSB uses geode 1.2.0, which should be compatible with all later versions of the geode server. To make YCSB run with a different version of the geode client, you can change the geode.version property in pom.xml. Note: For update workloads, please use the property `-p writeallfields=true`