Starting with CUBRID - The easy way

Hi.

Many people ask me “Hey – I want to start playing with CUBRID and, for a quick start, I just need the essential information – some beginners guide or something... Where can I find this?”

My answer was usually “Sure – just go to www.cubrid.org – you will find everything in there – check the menus, the search and so on…”

But many times, the feedback I got is “I tried, but that’s too complicated…! ...there’s so much information, and the search returns hundreds of pages – it’s too much to deal with…”

Slowly, I started to realize that there is truth in this and, as time goes by, more and more information is added on the official site, potentially confusing for a CUBRID beginner.

Actually, not only for a beginner, I also find myself lost sometimes… :)

And so I decided it’s time to put up a small repository of CUBRID links – The essential beginner CUBRID links guide! Here it is:

Essentials:

You start with CUBRID by downloading CUBRID RDMS (the engine) from here. Because CUBRID RDMS does NOT come with a GUI client, the next thing to do is to download and install the CUBRID Manager Client.

Help:

Here is where you go when you need help and documentation: The CUBRID SQL syntax The built-in CUBRID SQL functions Tutorials

Source code:

CUBRID is open-source. Here is where you can find the source code for its components: The engine The CUBRID Manager Client Drivers:  C CCI JDBC Node.js ODBC .NET PHP The rest of the drivers…

Tips:

• The CUBRID JDBC driver comes automatically with the RDBMS installation – you will find it in the \Jdbc installation subfolder.
• Also with the RDBMS installation comes the OLE DB driver – you will find it in the \Bin installation subfolder.

Ask for help and Interact:

Need to talk to the community, ask questions, and share information? Use CUBRID Q&A Use CUBRID forums

News:

Need to stay up-to-date? This is what you use: CUBRID Official blog RSS feed

What else?

Other stuff:  3rd party applications support CUBRID and more, and some more CUBRID-related SourceForge apps

Finally, here is a map between MySQL and CUBRID components:

MySQL	CUBRID
MySQL Community Server	CUBRID RDBMS
MySQL Workbench	CUBRID Manager Client
MySQL Workbench - Migrate from Microsoft SQL Server	CUBRID Migration Toolkit
MySQL Connector/.NET	CUBRID .NET Driver
MySQL Connector/ODBC	CUBRID ODBC Driver
MySQL Connector/PHP	CUBRID PHP Driver
MySQL Notifier for Microsoft Windows	CUBRID Service Tray
MySQL command line utilities	CUBRID command line utilities
MySQL Cluster	CUBRID Cluster

I hope you will find this useful - see you next time – Bye-bye! :)

/Dee

P.S. Let’s mention also the social networks CUBRID links:

- Facebook

- Twitter