Studio system requirements

Here are the system requirements for Studio.

Hardware requirements

The installation instructions also assume that you have a running Oracle Endeca Server at which to point Studio. This version of Studio is compatible with the 7.5.x version of Oracle Endeca Server.

Minimum hardware requirements:
  • x64 processor, minimum 1.8 GHz
  • At least 2 GB of RAM, depending on the size of the application data set
  • 80 GB hard drive, depending on the size of the application data set
Recommended hardware requirements:
  • x64 3.0+ GHz processors; we recommend Intel Xeon (including Nehalem) or AMD Opteron processors
  • 8 GB of RAM or more, depending on the size of the application data set
  • High performance network-attached storage (for example, attached via a dedicated iSCSI or fibre channel network) or high performance locally-attached RAID storage (for example, a RAID 6 or RAID 0+1 array with battery-backed write caching, operating on 72GB or 146 GB spindles at 10k or 15k RPM spindle speed)
  • Gigabit Ethernet
Note: In this guide, the term "x64" refers to any processor compatible with the AMD64/EM64T architecture. You might need to upgrade your hardware, depending on the data you are processing. All run-time code must fit entirely in RAM. Likewise, hard disk capacity must be sufficient based on the size of your data set. Please contact your Oracle representative if you need more information on sizing your hardware.

Supported operating systems

Platform Description
Oracle Linux 5 Oracle Linux 5 (version 5 for x64) running on x64 processors. Only the Red Hat Compatible Kernel is supported.
Linux RHEL 5

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (version 5 for x64) running on x64 processors.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform (version 5 for x64) running on x64 processors.

For best performance on Red Hat Linux version 5 (Server and Advanced), we recommend the latest version of RHEL 5.

Windows 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise running on x64 processors.

Software requirements

Studio is a Web-based application that runs in an application server. It supports the following software:
Software Supported Versions
Application server
  • Tomcat 6. The Studio Tomcat bundle includes Tomcat 6.0.36.
  • Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1 (10.3.6)
Java Sun Java 6, update 18 or greater. We recommend that you use the latest Java 6 patch. The Studio Tomcat bundle includes version 1.6.0_38.
Database system
  • MySQL 5.1
  • Oracle 11g
Browser
  • Firefox ESR on Windows
  • Internet Explorer 8 (with compatibility mode disabled) on Windows
  • Internet Explorer 9 on Windows

Firefox is recommended.

Important: Running Internet Explorer 8 in compatibility mode is not supported.
Browser plugin Adobe Flash 10.0 or greater. We recommend using the most recent version of Flash supported by the browser.

Alternative database support

The Studio server uses a relational database to store configuration and state. Hypersonic is used by default, but is not recommended for production use due to performance issues. Studio has been tested on MySQL and Oracle 11g. However, many other databases are expected to work.

Customers should feel free to use any database, including shared systems they may already have in place. As with application servers, customers who choose to deploy on un-tested databases will always be supported on any issue that can be traced back to core Studio code and can be reproduced on a supported database.

For information on changing the database used, see Changing the Database Used to Store Studio Application Data.