Starting GraphDB-SE

Inside the Knora API server git repository, there is a folder called /triplestores/graphdb-se containing the latest supported version of the GraphDB-SE distribution archive.

Running Locally

Unzip graphdb-se-x.x.x-dist.zip to a place of your choosing and run the following:

$ cd /to/unziped/location
$ ./bin/graphdb -Dgraphdb.license.file=/path/to/GRAPHDB_SE.license

Running inside Docker

Important Steps

To be able to successfully run GraphDB inside docker two important steps need to be done beforhand:

1. Install Docker from http://docker.com.
2. Copy the GraphDB-SE license file into a folder of you choosing and name it GRAPHDB_SE.license. We will mount this folder into the docker container, so that the license can be used by GraphDB running inside the container.

Usage

 $ docker run --rm -it -v /path/to/license/folder:/external -p 7200:7200 dhlabbasel/graphdb


- ``--rm`` removes the container as soon as you stop it
- ``-p`` forwards the exposed port to your host (or if you use boot2docker to this IP)
- ``-it`` allows interactive mode, so you see if something get's deployed

After the GraphDB inside the docker container has started, you can find the GraphDB workbench here: http://localhost:7200

Above, we create and start a transient container (--rm flag). To create a container that we can stop and start again at a later time, follow the following steps:

 $ docker run --name graphdb -d -t -v /path/to/license/folder:/external -p 7200:7200 dhlabbasel/graphdb

 (to see the console output, attach to the container; to detach press Ctrl-c)
 $ docker attach graphdb

 (to stop the container)
 $ docker stop graphdb

 (to start the container again)
 $ docker start graphdb

 (to remove the container; needs to be stopped)
 $ docker rm graphdb

- ``--name`` give the container a name
- ``-d`` run container in background and print container ID
- ``-t`` allocate a pseudo TTY, so you see the console output
- ``-p`` forwards the exposed port to your host