Documentation is available at https://bigchaindb.readthedocs.org/
# install rethinkdb https://rethinkdb.com/docs/install/ubuntu/
$ source /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt $DISTRIB_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list
$ wget -qO- http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rethinkdb
# start rethinkdb
$ rethinkdbTo install RethinkDB on other platform, please refer to the official documentation.
$ pip install bigchaindbCurrently BigchainDB only supports Python 3.4+
Start the main process. If it's the first time bigchaindb will generate a default
configuration file for you.
$ bigchaindb startGenerate some tests transactions:
$ bigchaindb-benchmark load # add '-m' if you want to use all your coresTo know more about the bigchain command run
$ bigchaindb -hMake sure your rethinkdb process is running.
>>> from bigchaindb import Bigchain
>>> b = Bigchain()
>>> b.me
'2B8C8PJxhycFzn4wncRhBNmMWwE5Frr9nLBUa1dGGxj5W'BigchainDB creates a default configuration file on $HOME/.bigchaindb on the
first run.
$ bigchaindb show-config$ py.test -v