Gigahex is a web based data infrastructure platform to deploy and manage Apache Spark™, Apache Kafka and Apache Hadoop clusters. Currently, it supports running a single node cluster for local development and testing.

Main Features

• Visually build and deploy Spark, Kafka and HDFS Clusters
• View Spark applications and easily navigate to the Spark History Web UI
• View Kafka topics and messages
• Browse directories and files in HDFS

Quick Start

Install on MacOS

You can run Gigahex Data Platform on MacOS, using the following instructions.

• Install the dependencies - postgresql and Java 11 for the server.

  brew install postgresql java11

  • Install the Gigahex platform

  curl -s https://packages.gigahex.com/mac.sh | bash

• View the usage

  $  gxc help
  Gigahex CLI
  
  gxc [options]
  Option   Description
  ------------------------------------
  help     Show usage
  start    Start the gigahex service
  stop     Stop the gigahex service
  reset    Reset the gigahex service

Install on Windows

You can install Gigahex on Windows after enabling WSL2. Follow the below instructions to setup WSL2 and Ubuntu distro and install Gigahex.

• Install WSL 2 with the below command. After installation, you would need to reboot your system to continue with the installation.

    wsl --install -d Ubuntu

• On reboot, login to Ubuntu shell, setup your password and run the below command to install the dependencies - postgresql and Java Runtime 11

  sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib default-jre

• Now with the dependencies installed, set up Gigahex Data platform

  curl -s https://packages.gigahex.com/nix.sh | bash

  Once you've installed the platform, reopen the shell and run the following command to start the platform.

• View the usage

  $  gxc help
  Gigahex CLI
  
  gxc [options]
  Option   Description
  ------------------------------------
  help     Show usage
  start    Start the gigahex service
  stop     Stop the gigahex service
  reset    Reset the gigahex service

Install on Ubuntu

You can install Gigahex on Ubuntu as per the instructions below.

• Run the below command to install the dependencies - postgresql and Java Runtime 11

  sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib default-jre

• Now with the dependencies installed, set up Gigahex Data platform

  curl -s https://packages.gigahex.com/nix.sh | bash

Once you've installed the platform, reopen the shell and run the following command to start the platform.

• View the usage

  $  gxc help
  Gigahex CLI
  
  gxc [options]
  Option   Description
  ------------------------------------
  help     Show usage
  start    Start the gigahex service
  stop     Stop the gigahex service
  reset    Reset the gigahex service

Start the Gigahex

Once you've the setup ready, run the following command to start the services, and use the admin credentials generated to login to the platform.

$ gxc start

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 Open Source Data Infrastructure Platform.

> Starting the Gigahex Data Platform
> Welcome to Gigahex! 👋
> username: admin, password: **********
> Visit http://localhost:9080 to get started!