Installing NuoDB on Windows

NuoDB development is supported on Windows® 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, but production deployment is supported on only Linux systems.

You can download the free NuoDB Community Edition installation package from the Community Edition Download page. When you are ready to upgrade to the Professional or Enterprise Edition, contact NuoDB sales for the Professional or Enterprise Edition installation package.

Caution: NuoDB C++ Driver Compiler Support

In NuoDB releases prior to 2.3, the NuoDB C++ driver supported Microsoft® Visual C++ 2008 and 2010. In NuoDB Release 2.3, the NuoDB C++ driver no longer supports Microsoft Visual C++ 2008. Support for Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 was deprecated in NuoDB 2.3 and is no longer supported in NuoDB 2.4. The NuoDB C++ driver shipped with NuoDB 2.4 supports only Microsoft Visual C++ 2013.

Microsoft Windows users who require a compiler version that is not supported by the current NuoDB C++ driver must do one of the following:

Use an older version of the C++ driver (the libNuoRemote library from an older version of NuoDB).
Use the NuoDB C driver introduced in NuoDB 2.3.

NuoDB on Windows requires the following:

.NET Framework v4 or later must be installed, or the NuoDB ADO.NET driver, which is part of the NuoDB installation package, will not install.
Java JRE 1.7 or 1.8.

NuoDB installation fails if the Java JRE is not installed. The 64-bit installer requires a 64-bit Java installation. To download Java 1.7 directly from Oracle, go to:

You can download Java 1.7 directly from Oracle. In particular, download and run jre-7-windows-i586.exe for 32-bit Windows or jre-7-windows-x64.exe for 64-bit Windows.
Windows Update KB2999226 should be installed. Depending on your operating system and its update status, update KB2999226 may have dependencies on updates KB2919355 and KB2919442.

NuoDB recommends that you run Windows Update and then try to install KB2999226. If it does not install initially, then check for dependencies. For details, see the prerequisites section in this update article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226.

These updates are required by Visual Studio 2015, which is used to compile this version of NuoDB. If you install updates, ensure that you install the correct ones as described in these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

The default Windows installation directory is C:\Program Files\NuoDB. Installation automatically adds C:\Program Files\NuoDB\bin to your PATH environment variable.

Note: To change the installation directory use /D <install dir>. It must be the last parameter used in the command line and must not contain any quotes, even if the path contains spaces. Only absolute paths are supported.

In addition to copying files to the correct places, the installer does the following:

Sets up the registry entries for the NuoDB ODBC driver
Checks that a valid version of Java is installed
Starts NuoDB services if requested to do so

To install NuoDB on Windows, see one of the following topics: