This guide explains the basic steps to get you started quickly with Stardog on a UnixWe test every Stardog release extensively with various flavors of Linux and OS X. Please report a bug if you find issues on other platforms. box.

First, tell Stardog where its home directory (where databases and other files will be stored) is:If you're using some weird Unix shell that doesn't create environment variables in this way, adjust accordingly. Stardog requires STARDOG_HOME to be defined.

$ export STARDOG_HOME=/data/stardog

Second, copy the stardog-license-key.binYou'll get this either with an evaluation copy of Stardog or with a licensed copy. into place:

$ cp stardog-license-key.bin $STARDOG_HOME

Third, start the Stardog server. By default the server will expose SNARL and HTTP interfaces—on ports 5820 and 5822, respectively.

$ ./stardog-admin server start

Fourth, create a database with an input file; use the --server parameter to specify which server:

$ ./stardog-admin db create -n myDB -t D -u admin -p admin examples/data/University0_0.owl

Fifth, optionally, admire the pure RDF bulk loading power...woof!

Sixth, query the database:

$ ./stardog query myDB "SELECT DISTINCT ?s WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } LIMIT 10"