Dockerized databases for CSE1500

Pros:

1. Databases are cleanly separated from your system
2. Identical setup for everyone (easier to debug)
3. Closer to a production setup
4. Easy to remove after you are done

Cons:

1. A tiny bit less performant

How to

1. Install Docker
2. git clone https://github.com/CSEdelft/docker-dbs
3. cd docker-dbs
4. cd into a database directory
5. make (wait a minute for the database to start)
6. make connect
7. (optional) make restore to load database data
8. Do your thing.
9. make kill (shutdown the database and remove the image)

Known Issues

On macOS you have to allow docker access into the directory, otherwise it cannot bind to the filesystem and persist database data (and won't even start). Do this in Docker->Preferences->File Sharing.