How to install Couchbase Enterprise Edition on macOS using Homebrew
This post provides a step-by-step guide with a list of commands on how to install Couchbase Enterprise Edition on macOS using Homebrew.
This post provides a step-by-step guide with a list of commands on how to install Couchbase Enterprise Edition on macOS using Homebrew. Couchbase Server is a packaged version of Couchbase’s open source software technology and is available in a Enterprise Edition.
What is Couchbase?
“Couchbase Server, originally known as Membase, is an open-source, distributed (shared-nothing architecture) multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package that is optimized for interactive applications. These applications may serve many concurrent users by creating, storing, retrieving, aggregating, manipulating and presenting data. It is designed to be clustered from a single machine to very large-scale deployments spanning many machines.” ~ Wikipedia
What is Homebrew?
Homebrew is a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Apple’s macOS operating system. It is known as the missing package manager for macOS.
Quick Commands
The following is the single command required to install Couchbase Enterprise Edition on macOS using Homebrew.
$ brew install --cask couchbase-server-enterprise
Brew Commands
This section provides a quick set of commands on how to install Couchbase Enterprise Edition on macOS using Homebrew. It is assumed that Homebrew is already installed. If not, please follow this link.
$ brew update # Fetch latest version of homebrew and formula.
$ brew tap homebrew/cask # Tap the Homebrew/Cask repository from Github using HTTPS.
$ brew search couchbase-server-enterprise # Searches all known Casks for a partial or exact match.
$ brew info --cask couchbase-server-enterprise # Displays information about the given Cask
$ brew install --cask couchbase-server-enterprise # Install the given cask.
$ brew cleanup # For all installed or specific formulae, remove any older versions from the cellar.
Summary
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Couchbase Enterprise Edition on macOS making use of Homebrew. Follow me on any of the different social media platforms and feel free to leave comments.
