At this point, you have enough information to create and test
your database. Even without stored procedures, you can use the
VoltDB shell commands and ad hoc queries to try out the
database. You start by compiling the schema in helloworld.sql
into an application catalog and then starting the database on
your local system. You use the voltdb command to both compile
the catalog and start the database. The first command uses the
compile action and specifies both the input schema file and the
name of the resulting application catalog, helloworld.jar. The
second command uses the create action, specifying the newly
created catalog as input: $ voltdb compile -o helloworld.jar
helloworld.sql $ voltdb create catalog helloworld.jar
Congratulations! You have created your first VoltDB database.
(Of course, if you receive any error messages when you compile
the catalog or start the database, go back and make sure you
have no typos in your source files or command lines.) You can
test the database to prove it is working by