Now that we have mzcli we can connect to materialized with: mzcli -U materialize -h localhost -p 6875 materializeįor this demo, let's quickly install nginx and use Regex to parse the log and create Materialized Views. i.Materialise is an online 3D-printing service, which allows anyone to upload a 3D model via the internet to be printed. The easiest way to install mzcli is via pipx, so first run: apt install pipxĪnd, once pipx is installed, install mzcli with: pipx install mzcli Materialise also offers a number of consumer-facing services and products. To learn the main differences between the two, make sure to check out the official documentation here: Materialize CLI Connections Materialize is wire-compatible with PostgreSQL, so if you have psql already installed you could use it instead of mzcli, but with mzcli you get nice syntax highlighting and autocomplete when writing your queries. The mzcli tool lets us connect to Materialize similar to how we would use a SQL client to connect to any other database. For a production-ready Materialize instance, I would recommend giving Materialize Cloud a try! Installing mzcli There are other ways that you could use in order to run Materialize as described here. Now that we have the materialized running, we need to open a new terminal to install and run a CLI tool that we use to interact with our Materialize instance! Once it's installed, start Materialize (with sudo so it has access to nginx logs): sudo materialized To install it, run the following command:' sudo apt install materialized Since we're running on Linux, we'll just install Materialize directly. Materialize runs as a single binary called materialized (d for daemon, following Unix conventions). Materialize Documentation Installing Materialize If you want to learn more about Materialize, make sure to check out their official documentation here: Messages from streaming sources like KafkaĬhange feeds from databases like PostgreSQLĭata in Files: CSV, JSON and even unstructured files like logs (what we'll be using today)Īnd it maintains the answers to your SQL queries over time, keeping them up-to-date as new data flows in (using materialized views), instead of running them against a static snapshot at a point in time. It is not a substitution for your transactional database, instead, it accepts input data from a variety of sources like: Moving the logo icon or adjusting the spacing of the design is simple. Materialize is a streaming database for real-time analytics. and materialize itself and an ally anywhere on the map with Relocate.
If you prefer running Materialize on a different operating system, you can follow the steps on how to install Materialize here: If you want to follow along you could spin up a new Ubuntu 21.04 server on your favorite could provider. Prerequisitesįor the sake of simplicity, I will use a brand new Ubuntu 21.04 server where I will install nginx, Materialize and mzcli, a CLI tool similar to psql used to connect to Materialize and execute SQL on it. By the end of the tutorial, you will have a better idea of what Materialize is, how it's different than other SQL engines, and how to use it. In this tutorial, I will show you how Materialize works by using it to run SQL queries on continuously produced nginx logs.