System Requirements

The currently supported requirements for running the Senzing APIs are outlined below. If you have requirements or questions not addressed here please let us know at [e-mail]

Operating System

• CentOS 7 x86_64
• RedHat 7 x86_64
• Debian 9 / Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64 - see Using Debian Based Linux below
• Amazon Linux 2016 x86_64
• Windows 10 and 7 64bit
• macOS High Sierra and Mojave

Note: Senzing API is not generally available on Windows or macOS, please see the Senzing App offering for a single user desktop application for Windows and macOS. The remainder of this article is in regard the Senzing APIs on Linux. 

• Senzing App Support
• Senzing App General Purpose

Minimum Hardware Specifications

• 16 GB RAM
• 4 modern CPU Cores
• 100 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) or NVMe storage

Relational Database

• IBM Db2
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL / MariaDB - 5.6.5 / 10.1
• AWS RDS
• SQLite

Note: SQLite is used as an embedded database to enable users to expedite getting started. It is capable up to a couple of million source records but not recommended for larger scale use beyond testing or QA type applications. 

Application Programming Interfaces (API)

• C
• Python
• Java
• G2Command - Interactive shell

Data Input and Output Formats

• CSV
• JSON

Python

Python 3.6+ 

Useful Links

• Performance FAQ
• Hardware Sizing Guide
• Database FAQ

Using Debian or Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu and Debian use an incompatible version of libssl and libcrypto, additional libraries are included in /opt/senzing/g2/lib/debian and are amended to LD_LIBRARY_PATH via the setupEnv script.