Hardware Requirements (Developing Sun Master Indexes)

Developing Sun Master Indexes

Hardware Requirements

This section describes the minimum recommended hardware configuration for a database installation. These requirements are based on the minimum requirements recommended by database vendors for a typical installation. Depending on the size of the database and expected volume, you should increase these recommendations as needed. See the documentation for your database for more information and for supported operating systems.

MySQL Database

For information and tips about installing a MySQL database for Sun Master Index, see the Chapter 2 of the MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual .

Oracle Database

For a Windows database server, the following configuration is recommended as a minimal installation:

Windows 2000 SP3 or later, Windows XP SP2, or Windows Server 2003
Pentium 266 or later
1 GB RAM (increase this based on the number of users, connections to the database, and volume)
Virtual memory should be double the amount of RAM
3 GB disk space plus an additional 2 KB for each system record to be stored in the database (note that this is a conservative estimate per system record, assuming that most records do not contain complete data). This depends on the Oracle environment you install. Enterprise Edition can take up to 5 GB.
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For a UNIX database server, the following configuration is recommended as a minimal installation:

256 MB RAM (increase this based on the number of users and connections to the database)
Swap space should be a minimum of twice the amount of RAM
2 GB disk space plus an additional 2 KB for each system record to be stored in the database (note that this is a conservative estimate per system record, assuming that most records do not contain complete data).

Note –
Disk space recommendations do not take into account the volume and processing requirements or the number of users. These are minimal requirements to install a generic database. At a minimum, the empty database and the database software will require 2.5 GB of disk space.

Microsoft SQL Server

The following configuration is recommended as a minimal installation for a SQL Server database.

Pentium III-compatible processor or higher
512 MB RAM as a minimum; at least 1 GB is recommended (increase this based on the number of users, connections to the database, and volume)
3 GB disk space plus an additional 2 KB for each system record to be stored in the database (note that this is a conservative estimate per system record, assuming that most records do not contain complete data). This depends on the SQL Server environment you install.
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Note –
Disk space recommendations do not take into account the volume and processing requirements or the number of users. These are minimal requirements to install a generic database. At a minimum, the empty database and the database software will require 1.6 GB of disk space.