QuestDB comes with a script questdb.sh for Linux/FreeBSD and an executable questdb.exe for Windows. If you are looking for macOS, please check our section.

You can find the latest binaries on the Get QuestDB page. The release notes are on our page.

The file is named:

Java 11

When using this binary you will need to have Java 11 installed locally. You can check which version is already installed on your system with:

If you do not already have Java installed, download and install the package for your operating system. We support:

  • AdoptOpenJDK
  • Amazon Corretto
  • OpenJDK

Other Java distributions are most likely working but we are not running tests on them.

JAVA_HOME

Your operating system version

The file is named:

  1. questdb-{@version@}-rt-windows-amd64.tar.gz

This binary weights around 20MB, this depends on your operating system.

When using this binary, you do not need anything on your machine, the Java runtime is packaged directly with QuestDB.

  1. tar -xvf questdb-{@version@}-no-jre-bin.tar.gz
  1. tar -xvf questdb-{@version@}-rt-windows-amd64.tar.gz