Get Started Overview - CefasDB Docs

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This section is for readers who want CefasDB running before they study internals. By the end of the section you can start a single node, create a table, write an item, query it, run the server in Docker, run a small replicated topology with Docker Compose, and understand how the Helm chart maps those same concepts onto Kubernetes.

cefasdb, the database process. cefas, the CLI that talks to the server over gRPC and exposes table, item, query, plugin, and cluster operations.

The topology changes how CefasDB is operated, not how the data model works. A local process, a Docker container, a three-node Compose cluster, and a Kubernetes StatefulSet all expose the same table, item, query, plugin, backup, and cluster concepts.

Three install paths are supported and produce equivalent binaries.