Installing BanyanDB Standalone Mode

The standalone mode is the simplest way to run Banyand. It is suitable for the development and testing environment.

Follow these steps to install BanyanDB and start up in standalone mode.

Download or build the BanyanDB packages.
Unpack and extract the skywalking-banyandb-x.x.x-bin.tgz.
Select the binary for your platform, such as banyand-linux-amd64 or banyand-darwin-amd64.
Move the binary to the directory you want to run BanyanDB. For instance, mv banyand-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/banyand. The following steps assume that the binary is in the /usr/local/bin directory.
Start up BanyanDB standalone server.

banyand standalone

Then the server running as a standalone process.


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{"level":"info","time":"2024-05-28T11:27:58+08:00","message":"starting as a standalone server"}
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{"level":"info","module":"LIAISON-GRPC","addr":":17912","time":"2024-05-28T11:27:59+08:00","message":"Listening to"}
{"level":"info","module":"LIAISON-HTTP","listenAddr":":17913","time":"2024-05-28T11:27:59+08:00","message":"Start liaison http server"}

The banyand server would be listening on the 0.0.0.0:17912 to access gRPC requests. if no errors occurred.

At the same time, the banyand server would be listening on the 0.0.0.0:17913 to access HTTP requests. if no errors occurred. The HTTP server is used for CLI and Web UI.

The Web UI is hosted at http://localhost:17913/.

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