Raspberry Pi related information
As mentioned in my other posts, I like to use no-SQL, document-oriented, databases for my various projects. My favorite is MongoDB but that requires running Ubuntu OS on the Raspberry Pi. I also use CouchDB and it has worked nicely in single node configuration on various Raspberry Pi. I have compiled CouchDB from source in […]
CouchDB 3.4 on Raspberry Pi 5 Read More »
Have a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB or 8GB of RAM and want to run the popular noSQL database, MongoDB? Read on for installing and running the latest 64-bit versions of MongoDB and Ubuntu 20.04. The short (TL;DR) instructions are to read and follow the official install guides for 64-bit Ubuntu Server 20.04 and MongoDB
MongoDB 4.4 & Ubuntu 20.04 on Raspberry Pi 4 Read More »
The main operating system for Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, continues to evolve. The latest version as of August 2017 is “Raspbian Stretch” — based upon the current stable version of Debian 9. The previous version was known as “Raspbian Jessie”. One difference between versions is OpenSSL libraries. OpenSSL is a general purpose cryptography library that provides an
MongoDB 3.0.14 for Raspbian Stretch Read More »
The Apache Software Foundation has released CouchDB version 2.0. CouchDB 2.0, is a “distributed” version of CouchDB, a mature NoSQL, document-oriented data-store that is accessable via a RESTful JSON API. Developers can take advantage of CouchDB’s offline capability and reliable data sync for web, mobile and IoT apps at (any) scale. [NOTE: September 2017 — CouchDB
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We had a really old alarm clock in our bedroom. Really old. The LED number segments, which were a nice dim red in color, had been dying at the rate of 1 segment a year and it was getting hard to read the time. My wife finally had enough of my “I’ll get a new
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I’ve written about getting MongoDB running on the Raspberry Pi 2. View my other posts where you can get binaries (3.0.9) or learn how to compile from scratch (3.0.7). The mongo shell works great but you may want/need to code in Python, especially for device control or data logging, etc. PyMongo is a Python distribution containing
Using Python with MongoDB on Raspberry Pi 2 & 3 Read More »
I’ve received feedback that some folks are having problems compiling MongoDB 3.0.7 per my instructions AND it takes a long time 😉 MongoDB 3.0.9 just became available but needs quite a few changes to source in order to compile on the Raspberry Pi. I worked through MongoDB build scripts for ARCH ARM Linux and managed to
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I have successfully compiled MongoDB version 3.0.7 and tools on the Raspberry Pi 2. Full instructions are after the break — click on “more“. As usual I found great help from the Linux community for getting this to work on ARM7. mongo, mongod, mongos, and tools are all working great. The WiredTiger Engine does NOT work
MongoDB 3.0.7 on Raspberry Pi 2! Read More »
I had been experimenting with the world of Javascript on the server-side using Node.js. I “fell off the horse” when Node.js had an identity and direction crisis and io.js was forked. Node.js and io.js have reunited and the latest supported version is v4.2 with v5.0 just released. The latest “apt-get” version of Node.js as of 15
Node.js v4 & v5 on Raspberry Pi 2 Read More »
