MemSQL runs natively on 64-bit Linux operating systems. Your system hardware must have at least 4 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM, and you must using a supported distribution of Linux. For more information, see our System Requirements.
1
Download the MemSQL tar file
Open the Terminal App on your computer and execute theses commands. They download the MemSQL tar file to the /tmp directory (or a path of your own choosing).
cd /tmp wget http://download.memsql.com/memsql-ops-6.0.10/memsql-ops-6.0.10.tar.gz
2
Extract the contents of the tar file
This command extracts the MemSQL executable from the tar file to a folder with the same name.
tar zxvf memsql-ops-6.0.10.tar.gz
3
Run the installer script and deploy a simple cluster
These commands navigate to the extracted folder and then run an installer script that installs MemSQL as a simple cluster with one master aggregator and one leaf.
cd memsql-ops-6.0.10 sudo ./install.sh --simple-cluster
4
Connect to the MemSQL client
memsql