Getting Started

It’s very easy to get started with Couchbase Server – in fact you can do it in less than five minutes!

Take a look at the simple instructions below, or roll through our (less than) five-minute video and you will be on your way.

Download the appropriate package for your platform.
Depending on your platform, the first stage of the installation process differs.
- On Windows you can use the installer and follow the on-screen instructions.
- On Red Hat Linux, use rpm
  rpm -i couchbase-server-community.rpm
- On Debian use dpkg
  dpkg -i couchbase-server-community.deb
Once installed, you need to use the Couchbase administration console to complete setting up your cluster. You can open the Couchbase Web Console by visiting http://localhost:8091 if you are on the same host, or http://servername:8091 from another machine. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation. You can safely use the defaults provided. Please remember to register and set the administrator
You can use the Couchbase workload generator to test your installation, and monitor the web console to see Couchbase in action:

/opt/couchbase/bin/cbworkloadgen -n 127.0.0.1:8091 --threads=1 -i 100000 -r 90
Alternatively, download a Couchbase client library for your chosen application development environment, and then run the sample client library application so that you can see Couchbase Server 1.8 in action.

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