Download EventStoreDB

1. Fully managed EventStoreDB hosting

EventStoreDB is available as a fully managed service in Event Store Cloud. You can provision high-availability and fully secure clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP in minutes.

Creating an account

Visit the Cloud Console to create an account.

1. Install EventStoreDB on Windows

1a) Download the binaries

Download the binaries for EventStoreDB using this link:

EventStore-OSS-Windows-2019-v23.6.0.zip

Unzip the downloaded archive to the desired folder location.

OR

1b) Install from Chocolatey

Or install the latest package from Chocolatey using the following command in an elevated terminal:

choco install eventstore-oss

2. Start EventStoreDB in dev mode

Run the following command to start EventStoreDB in dev mode with default configuration:

EventStore.ClusterNode.exe --dev

Click “Yes” if you are asked to install a certificate.

3. Login to the database Admin UI

Once the database has started, go to https://localhost:2113.

If your browser detects a security issue with the certificate, ask the browser to ignore the error and continue.

Login to the Admin UI using the default credentials:

Username: admin

Password: changeit

1. Install EventStoreDB on Linux

1a) Download the binaries

Download the binaries for EventStoreDB using this link:

EventStore-OSS-Linux-v23.6.0.tar.gz

Extract the archive to the desired folder location.

OR

1b) Install from PackageCloud

EventStoreDB has pre-built packages available for Debian-based distributions and manual instructions for distributions that use RPM.

The package name to install is eventstore-oss.

2. Start EventStoreDB in dev mode

Run the following command to start EventStoreDB in dev mode with default configuration (by default installed in /usr/bin/):

eventstored --dev

3. Login to the database Admin UI

Once the database has started, go to https://localhost:2113.

If your browser detects a security issue with the certificate, ask the browser to ignore the error and continue.

Login to the Admin UI using the default credentials:

Username: admin

Password: changeit

1. Run EventStoreDB on Mac OS (Intel)

To run EventStoreDB on Mac OS you need to use Docker.

2. Run EventStoreDB in a Docker container

You can easily run EventStoreDB in a Docker container as a single node, using insecure mode. It's good enough in most cases to try out the product and for local development purposes.

Run the following command to start EventStoreDB in dev mode with default configuration and without security:

docker run --name esdb-node -it -p 2113:2113 -p 1113:1113 \
    eventstore/eventstore:latest --insecure --run-projections=All --enable-atom-pub-over-http

3. Access the database Admin UI

Once the database has started, go to https://localhost:2113. With security disabled you won't be required to login.

1. Run EventStoreDB on Mac OS (M1/M2)

To run EventStoreDB on Mac OS you need to use Docker. You will need to use the dedicated ARM64 release.

2. Run EventStoreDB in a Docker container

You can easily run EventStoreDB in a Docker container as a single node, using insecure mode. It's good enough in most cases to try out the product and for local development purposes.

Run the following command to start EventStoreDB in dev mode with default configuration and without security:

docker run --name esdb-node -it -p 2113:2113 -p 1113:1113 \
    eventstore/eventstore:23.6.0-alpha-arm64v8 --insecure --run-projections=All --enable-atom-pub-over-http

3. Access the database Admin UI

Once the database has started, go to https://localhost:2113. With security disabled you won't be required to login.

1. Install EventStoreDB on Ubuntu 18.04

1a) Download the binaries

Download the binaries for EventStoreDB using this link:

EventStore-OSS-Linux-v23.6.0.ubuntu-18.04.deb

Install the package using the following command:

dpkg -i /path/to/EventStore-OSS-Linux-v23.6.0.ubuntu-18.04.deb

OR

1b) Install from PackageCloud

EventStoreDB has pre-built packages available for Ubuntu. The package name to install is eventstore-oss.

Or install using the following commands:

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/EventStore/EventStore-OSS/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

sudo apt-get install eventstore-oss=23.6.0

2. Start EventStoreDB in dev mode

Run the following command to start EventStoreDB in dev mode with default configuration (by default installed in /usr/bin/):

eventstored --dev

3. Login to the database Admin UI

Once the database has started, go to https://localhost:2113.

If your browser detects a security issue with the certificate, ask the browser to ignore the error and continue.

Login to the Admin UI using the default credentials:

Username: admin

Password: changeit

1. Install EventStoreDB on Ubuntu 20.04

1a) Download the binaries

Download the binaries for EventStoreDB using this link:

EventStore-OSS-Linux-v23.6.0.ubuntu-20.04.deb

Install the package using the following command:

dpkg -i /path/to/EventStore-OSS-Linux-v23.6.0.ubuntu-20.04.deb

OR

1b) Install from PackageCloud

EventStoreDB has pre-built packages available for Ubuntu. The package name to install is eventstore-oss.

Or install using the following commands:

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/EventStore/EventStore-OSS/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

sudo apt-get install eventstore-oss=23.6.0

2. Start EventStoreDB in dev mode

Run the following command to start EventStoreDB in dev mode with default configuration (by default installed in /usr/bin/):

eventstored --dev

3. Login to the database Admin UI

Once the database has started, go to https://localhost:2113.

If your browser detects a security issue with the certificate, ask the browser to ignore the error and continue.

Login to the Admin UI using the default credentials:

Username: admin

Password: changeit

1. Install EventStoreDB on Ubuntu 22.04

1a) Download the binaries

Download the binaries for EventStoreDB using this link:

EventStore-OSS-Linux-v23.6.0.ubuntu-22.04.deb

Install the package using the following command:

dpkg -i /path/to/EventStore-OSS-Linux-v23.6.0.ubuntu-22.04.deb

OR

1b) Install from PackageCloud

EventStoreDB has pre-built packages available for Ubuntu. The package name to install is eventstore-oss.

Or install using the following commands:

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/EventStore/EventStore-OSS/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

sudo apt-get install eventstore-oss=23.6.0

2. Start EventStoreDB in dev mode

Run the following command to start EventStoreDB in dev mode with default configuration (by default installed in /usr/bin/):

eventstored --dev

3. Login to the database Admin UI

Once the database has started, go to https://localhost:2113.

If your browser detects a security issue with the certificate, ask the browser to ignore the error and continue.

Login to the Admin UI using the default credentials:

Username: admin

Password: changeit

1. Run EventStoreDB in a Docker container

You can easily run EventStoreDB in a Docker container as a single node, using insecure mode. It's good enough in most cases to try out the product and for local development purposes.

Run the following command to start EventStoreDB in dev mode with default configuration and without security:

docker run --name esdb-node -it -p 2113:2113 -p 1113:1113 \
    eventstore/eventstore:latest --insecure --run-projections=All --enable-atom-pub-over-http

2. Access the database Admin UI

Once the database has started, go to https://localhost:2113. With security disabled you won't be required to login.

1. EventStoreDB OSS Github repository

The official open-source repository for EventStoreDB is eventstore/eventstore and can be found here: https://github.com/EventStore/EventStore

Building from source and contributing

In the readme file you will find instructions for building from source and contributing to the open-source project.

1. Download and install the client SDK

1a) Download from source

The Github repository is here: https://github.com/EventStore/EventStore-Client-dotnet

OR

1b) Install from NuGet

The NuGet package is EventStore.Client.Grpc.Streams found here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/EventStore.Client.Grpc.Streams

2. Connect to the database and write and read your first event

Follow our getting started guide for C# on our Developers' website: https://developers.eventstore.com/clients/grpc/

1. Download and install the client SDK

1a) Download from source

The Github repository is here: https://github.com/EventStore/EventStoreDB-Client-Java 

OR

1b) Install from Maven

The Maven package is com.eventstore/db-client-java found here: https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.eventstore/db-client-java 

2. Connect to the database and write and read your first event

Follow our getting started guide for Java on our Developers' website: https://developers.eventstore.com/clients/grpc/

1. Download and install the client SDK

1a) Download from source

The Github repository is here: https://github.com/EventStore/EventStore-Client-NodeJS 

OR

1b) Install from Yarn or NPM

The Node package is @eventstore/db-client.

Yarn: https://yarnpkg.com/package/@eventstore/db-client

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@eventstore/db-client 

2. Connect to the database and write and read your first event

Follow our getting started guide for JavaScript or TypeScript on our Developers' website: https://developers.eventstore.com/clients/grpc/

1. Download and install the client SDK

The Github repository is here: https://github.com/EventStore/EventStore-Client-Go

2. Connect to the database and write and read your first event

Follow our getting started guide for Go on our Developers' website: https://developers.eventstore.com/clients/grpc/

1. Download and install the client SDK

The Github repository is here: https://github.com/EventStore/EventStoreDB-Client-Rust 

2. Connect to the database and write and read your first event

Follow our getting started guide for Rust on our Developers' website: https://developers.eventstore.com/clients/grpc/

1. Download and install the client SDK

The Haskell client for EventStoreDB uses the TCP protocol which is legacy and no longer supported. Please consider using one of our gRPC clients instead.

1a) Download from source

The Github repository is here: https://github.com/EventStore/EventStoreDB-Client-haskell 

OR

1b) Install from Hackage

The Hackage package is eventstore found here: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/eventstore 

2. Connect to the database and write and read your first event

Follow the usage instructions here: https://github.com/EventStore/EventStoreDB-Client-haskell#how-to-use