Ubuntu Open Source CPU with Apt

This is an end-to-end recipe for installing OmniSci Open Source on an Ubuntu machine running without GPUs.

Here is a quick video overview of the installation steps.

https://youtu.be/JLQuMGZ_OQsyoutu.be

The order of these instructions is significant. To avoid problems, install each component in the order presented.

Assumptions

These instructions assume the following:

• You are installing on a “clean” Ubuntu host machine with only the operating system installed.

• Your OmniSci host only runs the daemons and services required to support OmniSci.

• Your OmniSci host is connected to the Internet.

Preparation

Prepare your Ubuntu machine by updating your system and creating the OmniSci user (named omnisci).

Update and Reboot

1. Update the entire system.

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt upgrade

2. Install a "headless" Java runtime environment.

   sudo apt install default-jre-headless

3. Verify that the apt-transport-https utility is installed.

   sudo apt install apt-transport-https

4. Reboot to activate the latest kernel.

   sudo reboot

Create the OmniSci User

Create a group called omnisci and a user named omnisci, who will be the owner of the OmniSci database. You can create the group, user, and home directory using the useradd command with the -U and -m switches.

sudo useradd -U -m omnisci

To install OmniSci:

1. Download and add a GPG key to apt.

   sudo curl https://releases.omnisci.com/GPG-KEY-omnisci | sudo apt-key add -

2. Download the OmniSci list file:

   echo "deb https://releases.omnisci.com/os/apt/ stable cpu" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/omnisci.list

3. Use update to locate the new installation options, then install OmniSci.

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install omnisci

Configuration

These are the steps to prepare your OmniSci environment.

Set Environment Variables

For convenience, you can update .bashrc with the required environment variables.

1. Open a terminal window.

2. Enter cd ~/ to go to your home directory.

3. Open .bashrc in a text editor. For example, vi .bashrc.

4. Edit the .bashrc file. Add the following export commands under “User specific aliases and functions.”

   # User specific aliases and functions
   export OMNISCI_USER=omnisci
   export OMNISCI_GROUP=omnisci
   export OMNISCI_STORAGE=/var/lib/omnisci
   export OMNISCI_PATH=/opt/omnisci
   export OMNISCI_LOG=/var/lib/omnisci/data/mapd_log

5. Save the .bashrc file. For example, in vi, [esc]:x!.

6. Open a new terminal window to use your changes.

The $OMNISCI_STORAGE directory must be dedicated to OmniSci: do not set it to a directory shared by other packages.

Initialization

Run the systemd installer.

cd $OMNISCI_PATH/systemd
./install_omnisci_systemd.sh

Accept the values provided (based on your environment variables) or make changes as needed. The script creates a data directory in $OMNISCI_STORAGE with the directories mapd_catalogs, mapd_data, and mapd_export. mapd_import and mapd_log directories are created when you insert data the first time. If you are an OmniSci administrator, the mapd_log directory is of particular interest.

Activation

Start and use OmniSciDB and Immerse.

1. Start OmniSciDB

   sudo systemctl start omnisci_server

2. Enable OmniSciDB to start automatically when the system reboots.

   sudo systemctl enable omnisci_server

Checkpoint

To verify that all systems are go, load some sample data and perform an omnisql query.

OmniSci ships with two sample datasets of airline flight information collected in 2008, and a census of New York City trees from 2015.

1. To install sample data, run the following command.

   cd $OMNISCI_PATH
   sudo ./insert_sample_data

2. When prompted, enter 2 to insert the 10 thousand row flights dataset.

   Enter dataset number to download, or 'q' to quit:
   #     Dataset           Rows    Table Name          File Name
   1)    Flights (2008)    7M      flights_2008_7M     flights_2008_7M.tar.gz
   2)    Flights (2008)    10k     flights_2008_10k    flights_2008_10k.tar.gz
   3)    NYC Tree Census (2015)    683k    nyc_trees_2015_683k    nyc_trees_2015_683k.tar.gz

3. Connect to OmniSciDB by entering the following command in a terminal on the host machine (default password is HyperInteractive):

   $OMNISCI_PATH/bin/omnisql
   password: ••••••••••••••••

4. Enter a SQL query such as the following:

   omnisql> SELECT origin_city AS "Origin", dest_city AS "Destination", AVG(airtime) AS
   "Average Airtime" FROM flights_2008_10k WHERE distance < 175 GROUP BY origin_city,
   dest_city;

   The results should be similar to the results below.

   Origin|Destination|Average Airtime
   Austin|Houston|33.055556
   Norfolk|Baltimore|36.071429
   Ft. Myers|Orlando|28.666667
   Orlando|Ft. Myers|32.583333
   Houston|Austin|29.611111
   Baltimore|Norfolk|31.714286