Running Speedment ACE on Amazon EC2

Speedment ACE is a Graph Database Converter, and a powerful software development tool.  A Graph Database  is a NoSql database that performs best when the relationships between nodes of your data are the most important (and frequently accessed) part of that data.

Speedment ACE builds a Graph Data Grid (GDG) automatically, either from existing tables, or using the Ace Front end to generate those tables.  A great way to check out Speedment ACE is to install it on Amazon Web Services.  Here's how to get going with Speedment in 10 easy steps.

1)  Create an AWS MySql Instance.  

Note the database endpoint, name, username and password then connect form a MySql client.

2)  From the Speedment Programmer's Guide, 

Create a test schema and sample users table:

CREATE SCHEMA speedment_test; 
USE speedment_test; 
CREATE TABLE `speedment_test`.`user` ( 
 `id` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 `name` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
 `surname` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
 `email` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
 `password` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE INDEX `Index_email`(`email`),
 INDEX `Index_name`(`name`)
) ENGINE = InnoDB;

3) Create an AWS Windows Instance

Be sure to associate the instance with a key pair so you can connect using a Windows RDP Client.  Then in the AWS Console, Launch your new instance, and generate a password using your private key. Also make not of the IP address of your new instance.

4) Connect to your new Windows Instance using an RDP client.

If you have Google Chrome, you can use the 2X Client for RDP/Remote Desktop.

5) Internet Explorer on your new EC2 Windows Instance will ask you

to add every URL you visit for your permission.  You may want to install another browser  to avoid this.

6) Download and install the JSDK 1.7.  

After installing set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the bin directory where the 'java' executable is located.

7) Download and unzip the Speedment Ace Front End .  

Run it from the ace.bat file located in the bin directory.

8) After registering, Create a new Project.

9) Right-click on the new project and select “Add DBMS”.  

Add the info from the DB instance we created in step 1.

10) Starting on page 28 of the  Speedment Programmer's Guide, 

you can now explore capabilities of the Speedment Ace front end.  This includes the ability to generate code for rapid application development, and building a Graph Data Grid (GDG), the core of Speedment's optimization capabilities.

0802 - Intro to Graph Databases by Neo Technology

Join this webinar for a high level introduction to graph databases. This webinar demonstrates how graph databases fit within the NOSQL space, and where they are most appropriately used. In this session you will learn: Overview of NOSQL Why graphs matter Overview of Neo4j Use cases for graph databases

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