Setting up an Asterix Development Environment:

Prerequisites:

• A suitable *nix environment (Linux, OSX)
• If you using Windows better do dual boot of linux than virtual machines its an effective way
• JDK 1.8+ you might need JDK 21+ for latest versions(or latest LTS versions)
• Maven 3.3.9 or greater
• Eclipse Juno (or later) or IntelliJ IDEA 15.0 (or later)

Important Links

• https://asterixdb.apache.org/
• https://asterixdb.apache.org/dev-setup.html
• https://asterixdb.apache.org/docs/0.9.9/index.html
• https://github.com/apache/asterixdb/

Cloning Steps:

1. Check out the AsterixDB master in one folder via git in the command line. Assuming you are in the directory where you want an asterixDB clone.

   git clone [https://github.com/apache/asterixdb/](https://github.com/apache/asterixdb/)

2. Now go into asterixdb directory and install maven dependencies.

   cd asterixdb/ mvn install -DskipTests

   mvn clean package -DskipTests

3. Now your codebase is cloned and dependencies installed.

IntelliJ IDEA IDE Setup: