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Installing Using ZIP Archive

Prerequisites

Ignite was tested on:

JDK

Oracle JDK 8, 11 or 17 Open JDK 8, 11 or 17, IBM JDK 8, 11 or 17

OS

Linux (any flavor), Mac OSX (10.6 and up), Windows (XP and up), Windows Server (2008 and up), Oracle Solaris

ISA

x86, x64, SPARC, PowerPC

Network

No restrictions (10G recommended)

Installing Using ZIP Archive

To get started with the Apache Ignite binary distribution:

  1. Download the Ignite binary as a zip archive.

  2. Unzip the zip archive into the installation folder in your system.

  3. (Optional) Enable required modules.

  4. (Optional) Set the IGNITE_HOME environment variable or Windows PATH to point to the installation folder and make sure there is no trailing / (or \ for Windows) in the path.