Install Materialize

Materialize was first built as a single binary that runs on a single node: materialized. To support mission-critical deployments at any scale, we are now evolving the binary into a cloud-native platform with built-in horizontal scaling, active replication and decoupled storage.

You can sign up for early access to learn more about the new architecture, and in the meantime use these instructions to install the latest long-term support (LTS) release of Materialize, v0.26.6. Once Materialize is generally available in the cloud (Fall 2022 🚀), Docker will be supported for local development and testing.

Docker

We provide the materialize/materialized image in Docker Hub. If you already have Docker installed, you can run materialized with your tools in the usual way. For example:

docker run -p 6875:6875 materialize/materialized:v0.26.6 --workers 1

Using Docker volumes

To persist Materialize metadata, you can create a Docker volume and mount it to the /mzdata directory in the container:

# Create a volume
docker volume create --name mzdata
# Create a container with the volume mounted
docker run -v mzdata:/mzdata -p 6875:6875 materialize/materialized:v0.26.6

macOS installation

Homebrew

Assuming you’ve installed Homebrew:

brew install MaterializeInc/materialize/materialized

curl

curl -L https://binaries.materialize.com/materialized-v0.26.6-$(uname -m)-apple-darwin.tar.gz \
    | sudo tar -xzC /usr/local --strip-components=1

Linux installation

apt (Ubuntu, Debian, or variants)

# Add the signing key for the Materialize apt repository
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 79DEC5E1B7AE7694
# Add and update the repository
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.materialize.com/ generic main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/materialize.list'
sudo apt update
# Install materialized
sudo apt install materialized

apt DEB822 (Ubuntu jammy/22.04+, Debian bookworm/testing+)

For Debian-based distributions with apt version 2.3.10 or later, we offer a DEB822-compliant sources file to install Materialize:

# Add and update the repository
curl https://dev.materialize.com/apt/materialize.sources | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/materialize.sources
sudo apt update
# Install materialized
sudo apt install materialized

curl

curl -L https://binaries.materialize.com/materialized-v0.26.6-$(uname -m)-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz \
    | sudo tar -xzC /usr/local --strip-components=1

Build from source

Materialize is written primarily in Rust, but incorporates several components written in C. To build Materialize, you will need the following tools:

• A recent version of Git

• A C compiler that supports C11

• A C++ compiler that supports C++11

• CMake v3.2+

• Rust v1.60.0+

Your system’s package manager, like Homebrew on macOS or APT on Debian, likely contains sufficiently recent versions of Git, a C compiler, and CMake. However, we recommend installing Rust via rustup. rustup configures your system so that running cargo build in the Materialize repository will automatically download and use the correct version of Rust.

Once you’ve installed the prerequisites, to build your own materialized binary, you can clone the MaterializeInc/materialize repo from GitHub, and build it using cargo build. Be sure to check out the tag for the correct release.

git clone https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize.git
cd materialize
git checkout v0.26.6
cargo build --release --bin materialized

Run the binary

You can start the materialized process by running the binary, e.g.

./materialized --workers 1

--workers 1 specifies that the process will use 1 worker. You can also find more detail about our command line flags.

By default materialized uses:

systemd service

If you’ve installed Materialize via apt, you can start it as a service by running:

systemctl start materialized.service

To enable the service to start up at boot, run:

systemctl enable materialized.service

CLI Connections

To connect to a running instance, you can use any Materialize-compatible CLI, like psql. For an overview of compatible SQL clients and their current level of support, check out Tools and Integrations.

services:
  materialized:
    image: materialize/materialized:v0.26.6
    ports:
      - "6875:6875"
  cli:
    image: materialize/cli:v0.26.6

brew install postgresql

psql -U materialize -h localhost -p 6875 materialize

apt install postgresql-client

psql -U materialize -h localhost -p 6875 materialize

Next, let’s get started with Materialize! →