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How to Install Redis on Rocky Linux 10, 9 and 8
Fast cache reads matter when an application would otherwise keep asking a disk-backed database for the same session, queue, or page-fragment data. To install Redis on Rocky Linux...
How to Install Elasticsearch 9 on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04
Install Elasticsearch 9 on Ubuntu from Elastic's official APT repository when you want the current self-managed Elasticsearch 9 branch on a host you administer. This walkthrough covers Ubuntu...
How to Install Elasticsearch 8 on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04
Existing Elastic Stack deployments often need Elasticsearch 8 even after Elasticsearch 9 is available, especially when clients, plugins, or cluster upgrade plans are pinned to the 8.x branch....
How to Install Redis on Fedora 44
Fast cache reads only help when Fedora installs the server package your application expects. To install Redis on Fedora today, first decide whether Redis-compatible Valkey is enough or...
How to Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04
MongoDB fits Ubuntu applications that need a document database with flexible JSON-style records, the mongod service, and the mongosh administration shell on one managed update path. To install...
How to Install MySQL 8.0 on Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04
MySQL 8.0 still matters on Ubuntu when an application, backup chain, or replication setup is tied to that branch instead of a newer MySQL LTS release. It remains...
How to Install MariaDB on Arch Linux
Arch Linux installs MariaDB from the official repositories, but the database server will not start until you initialize /var/lib/mysql with mariadb-install-db. To install MariaDB on Arch Linux cleanly,...
How to Install PostgreSQL on Arch Linux
PostgreSQL on Arch Linux is a pacman-managed database server, but it will not start until you initialize its data directory with initdb. The official postgresql package installs the...
How to Install Redis on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04
Fast caches, queue backends, rate limits, and session stores all benefit from memory-first reads instead of repeated trips to disk-backed storage. You can install Redis on Ubuntu to...
How to Install PostgreSQL 17 on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04
PostgreSQL 17 is not the default on any current Ubuntu LTS release. Ubuntu 26.04 already moved to PostgreSQL 18, while Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 stay on older branches....
How to Install PostgreSQL 16 on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04
PostgreSQL 16 is the default PostgreSQL branch on Ubuntu 24.04, while Ubuntu 22.04 stays on PostgreSQL 14 and Ubuntu 26.04 has moved to PostgreSQL 18. If you need...
How to Install PostgreSQL 15 on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04
PostgreSQL 15 is available on Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04 through the official PGDG APT repository. Ubuntu's default repositories ship different PostgreSQL branches (14 on 22.04, 16 on...