Binary Distribution

Use this guide to quickly start running Polaris using the pre-built binary distribution.

Prerequisites🔗

• Java SE 21 or later installed on your machine

Running🔗

Download the latest release and extract the binary distribution:

POLARIS_VERSION=1.6.0
curl -Lf https://downloads.apache.org/polaris/${POLARIS_VERSION}/polaris-bin-${POLARIS_VERSION}.tgz | tar xzf -
cd polaris-bin-${POLARIS_VERSION}

Start the Polaris server:

bin/server

The server will start and listen on http://localhost:8181 (main REST APIs) and http://localhost:8182 (management interface, for health checks and metrics).

Health and metrics endpoints are available under http://localhost:8182/q/health and http://localhost:8182/q/metrics respectively.

You can verify the server is running by checking the health endpoint:

curl http://localhost:8182/q/health