[Question]: Build Procedure on RHEL/Rocky 8 Without Docker + C/C++ API Access

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The AI-native database built for LLM applications, providing incredibly fast hybrid search of dense vector, sparse vector, tensor (multi-vector), and full-text

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[Question]: Build Procedure on RHEL/Rocky 8 Without Docker + C/C++ API Access #1912

Open mesibo opened 1 month ago

mesibo commented 1 month ago

We want to build infinity on RHEL/Rocky 8 without using Docker. Could you please provide a build procedure or any relevant documentation that can help us with this setup?
Additionally, although the project is developed in C/C++, there is only documentation for the Python API. We plan to integrate mesibo's real-time APIs into our workflow and would like to access the C/C++ API instead of the Python one. Could you guide us on where to find the C/C++ API documentation, and how to get started with it?

Thanks!

JinHai-CN commented 1 month ago

Check the centos7 dockerfile: dockerfile

Please also refer to the build_from_source. Althrough the document is for Ubuntu, it also tell us which libraries are necessary for Infinity.

Two ways to access Infinity in C/C++:
- HTTP API: https://infiniflow.org/docs/http_api_reference
- Thrift client: I tried to write a test C++ client here: https://github.com/infiniflow/infinity/tree/main/client/cpp, but considering most users of Infinity using Python / JS. I didn't continue maintaining it. You can follow it and write your thrift client.