Nebula Graph on Pi

With the ARM64 Docker Image of Nebula Graph, it’s actually quite easy to run it on SBC/Respberry Pi!

Recently, after Yee from Nebula Graph Community fixed ARM build on nebula-third-party#37, we could play with Nebula Graph on M1 Chip Macbook. While, I didn’t get the chance to run it on a SBC/Pi.

A couple of weeks before, in a twitter thread with @laixintao and @andelf I decided to purchase a Rock Pi 3A:

tweet-RPi-alternative

And it looks nice!(Even come with a NPU inside)

rockspi_before

Actually, since v3.0.0, Nebula comes with a standalone version, which suits the deep edge deployment more, but today, I will only setup the cluster version as the Docker Image is out of box to be used. I will share more on standalone version in upcoming weeks.

I put the Ubuntu Server installation steps in the appendix, and now I assumed we already have an ARM64 Linux up and running on a Pi SBC.

I am using debian/ubuntu here, while it should be the same for other distros, referring to https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/.

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release

echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

# follow https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
exit
# login again
newgrp docker

After Docker being installed, we install compose here, there could be issues encounterred from the Docker website on Compose installation. While, due to compose is just a python package, let’s do it via python3-pip install:

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sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip
sudo pip3 install docker-compose

We clone the compose file for nebula cluster first:

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git clone https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula-docker-compose.git && cd nebula-docker-compose
docker-compose up -d

Then, let’s download the client: nebula-console, and connect to the GraphD service:

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wget https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula-console/releases/download/v3.0.0/nebula-console-linux-arm64-v3.0.0
chmod +x nebula-console-linux-arm64-v3.0.0

./nebula-console-linux-arm64-v3.0.0 -addr localhost -port 9669 -u root -p nebula

Activate the storageD services:

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ADD HOSTS "storaged0":9779,"storaged1":9779,"storaged2":9779;
SHOW HOSTS;

WIth the SHOW HOSTS we should see StorageD services are all ONLINE, then we could run this from the console session to load the test dataset.

Referennce: https://docs.nebula-graph.io/3.0.1/nebula-console/#import_a_testing_dataset

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$:play basketballplayer;

The test data will be loaded in around 1 minute. Then, we could query something like:

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USE basketballplayer;

GO FROM "player100" OVER follow YIELD dst(edge);

Check this out and…

Happy Graphing!

Nebula-on-Pi

feature image credit: @_louisreed

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