Getting Started with Virtuoso, OpenSource Edition

This is the nexus page for getting started with Virtuoso, and replaces the corresponding installation and evaluator's guide sections of the commercial release's manual.

After you have downloaded and built your copy of Virtuoso OpenSource Edition, this page contains instructions for getting underway.

Having your new copy of Virtuoso OpenSource Edition, you may wish to do the following:

• Set up ODBC data sources to go to Virtuoso
• Try your favorite web-development tools or applications with Virtuoso as the data store
• Check out the SPARQL demo
• Take a tour of the web admin interface. Having the demo database online, point the browser to http://localhost:8890/conductor . The default login is dba with password dba, the rest is self-explanatory.
• Take a tour of the online programming tutorials. Having the demo database running, point the browser to http://localhost:8890/tutorial .
• Consult documentation. Point the browser to http://localhost:8890/doc/html with the demo database running.
• Run the sample client applications. There is a TPCC test driver with a whole document that is a tutorial on how to write stored procedures and configure the server for scale. There are scripts for automating all this:
  • Go to binsrc/tests, make tpc M2
  • cd tpcrun. When inside binsrc/tests/tpcrun, you can run ./tpc_run.sh clean to set the initial state, ./tpc_run.sh init to load the default test db, ./tpc_run.sh run to run a sample with 16 clients and get automatic consistency checks at the end.
• The programmer who wishes to see how thinks work without further ado can find examples of everything in binsrc/tests/suite/ in the source tree.
• Check out the EC2 AMI Installation Guide
• Try the RDF Insert Methods in Virtuoso