Streambase on EC2 - Install

As I mentioned recently I have a couple of tasks on the schedule to get various datamining software on EC2 as AMI (Amazon Machine Images). This enables me to have a platform from which to launch into the various demos and tutorials available and also put the software through its paces.

The next step was to get Streambase server installed onto a CentOS 4.4 base install running on EC2. CentOS 4.4 is close enough to Redhat Enterprise that it fulfills the requirements for installing Streambase.

I used the Streambase Installation Guide for Linux as a guide.

Given my fun the other day with installing Java, that piece of the install was very quick. In investment terms the time spent going through that pain had a big ROI (Return of Investment) today. I just need to keep reminding myself that fact when I get stuck in the future.

The other thing to note was the install guide keeps mentioning a tarball which is produced after running the bin file which you download. Running that file with sh StreamBase-3.7.3Trial.bin extracts the tarball as well for the development kit and everything is dumped at once.

Pre-requisites for installing Streamase onto CentOS or any other base install of Linux:

1. Being registered, so you can download the streambase binary install file.
   
2. compat-gcc-32 or compat-gcc-33 if available
   
3. compat-libstdc++-33
4. Java JDK 1.5

You can install those compat dependences using yum:

1. yum install compat-gcc-32
2. yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386
   

I will create a wiki HOWTO on this rather than dump the output to the screen here and update this post with the link.

I will have some more time in a couple of hours to run through the demo/tutorial with the Streambase Studio on my local PC and the server running off EC2.
The next task is to test the master and slave node install and make some images of the master and also the slave node.

Have Fun

Paul