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## Quick Start

This section describes how to run YCSB on Apache Geode (incubating).

### Get Apache Geode

You can download Geode from http://geode.incubator.apache.org/releases/

#### Start Geode Cluster

Use the Geode shell (gfsh) to start the cluster. You will need to start
at-least one locator which is a member discovery service and one or more
Geode servers.

Launch gfsh:

```
$ cd $GEODE_HOME
$ ./bin/gfsh
```

Start a locator and two servers:

```
gfsh> start locator --name=locator1
gfsh> start server --name=server1 --server-port=40404
gfsh> start server --name=server2 --server-port=40405
```

Create the "usertable" region required by YCSB driver:
```
gfsh>create region --name=usertable --type=PARTITION
```
gfsh has tab autocompletion, so you can play around with various options.

### Start YCSB workload

From your YCSB directory, you can run the ycsb workload as follows
```
./bin/ycsb load geode -P workloads/workloada -p geode.locator=host[port]
```
(default port of locator is 10334).

In the default mode, ycsb geode driver will connect as a client to the geode
cluster. To make the ycsb driver a peer member of the distributed system
use the property
`-p geode.topology=p2p -p geode.locator=host[port]`

Note:
For update workloads, please use the property `-p writeallfields=true`