In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install OrientDB on your Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04 server. OrientDB is the world’s leading open source NoSQL multi-model database management system written in Java. It is the most versatile DBMS which supports Graph, Document, Reactive, Full-Text, Geospatial and Key-Value models in one Multi-Model product.

You can run OrientDB in a distributed (Multi-Master) setup and supports SQL, ACID Transactions, Full-Text indexing and Reactive Queries. To know the power of OrientDB, take a look at OrientDB vs MongoDB for Document Databases and OrientDB vs Neo4j to have a comparison with a popular Graph Database.

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Install and Configure OrientDB on Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04

In this guide, we will install OrientDB Community Edition which is available as a binary package for download. Open OrientDB downloads page.

Step 1: Install OrientDB Dependencies.

Java is needed on your Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04 system to run OrientDB database system. Install it like below:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install apt-transport-https default-jdk-headless vim bash-completion

Install wget to download OriendDB installation file:

sudo apt install vim wget curl

Step 2: Install OrientDB on Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04 LTS

Once wget is installed, download the archive file. Check Github releases page for the latest releases.

export RELEASE=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/orientechnologies/orientdb/releases/latest|grep tag_name|cut -d '"' -f 4)
wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/orientechnologies/orientdb-community/$RELEASE/orientdb-community-$RELEASE.tar.gz

Uncompress the file:

tar xvf orientdb-community-$RELEASE.tar.gz

Move the resulting directory to /opt/orientdb

sudo mv orientdb-community-$RELEASE/ /opt/orientdb

Add system user to manage orientdb:

sudo groupadd -r orientdb
sudo useradd --system -g orientdb orientdb
sudo chown -R orientdb:orientdb /opt/orientdb

Create a root password:

cd /opt/orientdb/bin/
sudo ./server.sh

Sample output:

+---------------------------------------------------------------+
|                WARNING: FIRST RUN CONFIGURATION               |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| This is the first time the server is running. Please type a   |
| password of your choice for the 'root' user or leave it blank |
| to auto-generate it.                                          |
|                                                               |
| To avoid this message set the environment variable or JVM     |
| setting ORIENTDB_ROOT_PASSWORD to the root password to use.   |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+

Root password [BLANK=auto generate it]: **************
Please confirm the root password: **************

OrientDB Studio will be available at:

 http://server_ip:2480/studio/index.html

Step 3: Configure the OrientDB systemd service

The OrientDB’s package contains a service descriptor file for systemd based distros. The orientdb.service is placed in the bin directory. You can use locate command to find this fule path:

$ sudo find /opt/orientdb -name orientdb.service
/opt/orientdb/bin/orientdb.service

Copy the service unit file to  /etc/systemd/system/ directory.

sudo cp /opt/orientdb/bin/orientdb.service /etc/systemd/system/

Edit the file to set user and group for running the application.

sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/orientdb.service

It should look like below:

# Copyright (c) OrientDB LTD (http://http://orientdb.com/)
#
[Unit]
Description=OrientDB Server
After=network.target
After=syslog.target

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Service]
User=orientdb
Group=orientdb
ExecStart=/opt/orientdb/bin/server.sh

Set data directory permissions:

sudo chown -R orientdb:orientdb /opt/orientdb/

Start orientdb service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start orientdb

Check the service status:

$ systemctl status orientdb
 orientdb.service - OrientDB Server
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/orientdb.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2022-10-13 00:20:13 EAT; 32s ago
   Main PID: 5399 (java)
      Tasks: 23 (limit: 9460)
     Memory: 196.8M
        CPU: 3.526s
     CGroup: /system.slice/orientdb.service
             └─5399 /bin/java -server -Xms2G -Xmx2G -Djna.nosys=true -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Drhino.opt.level=9 -Djava.util.logging.manager=co>

Oct 13 00:20:18 jammy server.sh[5399]: 2022-10-13 00:20:18:120 INFO  DWL:OSystem: block size = 4096 bytes, maximum segment size = 1321 MB [DoubleWriteLogGL]
Oct 13 00:20:19 jammy server.sh[5399]: 2022-10-13 00:20:18:858 INFO  Storage 'plocal:/opt/orientdb/databases/OSystem' is opened under OrientDB distribution : 3.2.10 (build 2486dd95b4df421b5de9a2e77>
Oct 13 00:20:19 jammy server.sh[5399]: 2022-10-13 00:20:19:545 INFO  Listening binary connections on 0.0.0.0:2424 (protocol v.38, socket=default) [OServerNetworkListener]
Oct 13 00:20:19 jammy server.sh[5399]: 2022-10-13 00:20:19:554 INFO  Listening http connections on 0.0.0.0:2480 (protocol v.10, socket=default) [OServerNetworkListener]
Oct 13 00:20:19 jammy server.sh[5399]: 2022-10-13 00:20:19:689 INFO  Found ORIENTDB_ROOT_PASSWORD variable, using this value as root's password [OServer]
Oct 13 00:20:19 jammy server.sh[5399]: 2022-10-13 00:20:19:705 INFO  Installing dynamic plugin 'orientdb-studio-3.2.10.zip'... [OServerPluginManager]
Oct 13 00:20:19 jammy server.sh[5399]: 2022-10-13 00:20:19:710 INFO  Installing dynamic plugin 'orientdb-etl-3.2.10.jar'... [OServerPluginManager]
Oct 13 00:20:19 jammy server.sh[5399]: 2022-10-13 00:20:19:733 INFO  [OVariableParser.resolveVariables] Property not found: distributed [orientechnologies]
Oct 13 00:20:19 jammy server.sh[5399]: 2022-10-13 00:20:19:757 WARNI Authenticated clients can execute any kind of code into the server by using the following allowed languages: [sql] [OServerSideS>
Oct 13 00:20:19 jammy server.sh[5399]: 2022-10-13 00:20:19:767 INFO  OrientDB Studio available at http://192.168.200.8:2480/studio/index.html [OServer]

Your orientdb service should now be running. Open the UI using:

http://server:2480/studio/index.html

http://192.168.200.8:2480/studio/index.html

Login with the username root and password configured earlier.

orientdb ubuntu 18.04 login min

Thank you for using our guide to install OrientDB on Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04 Linux systems.

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1 COMMENT

  1. I have copied database folder from one server to anther server. db is showing in browser but not able to connect. using user id password of new user.

    can you help me to remove password from the database

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