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 (x86_64 only)

• RedHat 8 or newer
• Debian 10 or newer - see Using Debian Based Linux below
• Ubuntu 20.04 or newer - see Using Debian Based Linux below
• Amazon Linux 2 LTS
• Windows 10 64bit (Limited Availability for OEM partners and Java/C developers)
• macOS 11 or newer (Limited Availability for OEM partners and Java/C developers)

Info

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

 

Minimum Hardware Specifications

• 16 GB RAM
• 4 modern CPU Cores
  • Senzing 3.0 requires processors with SSE2 and AVX support. If you attempt to run on processors without it (like under Apple M1 emulation), you will receive illegal instruction/opcode errors
• 100 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) or NVMe storage

Relational Database

• IBM Db2 11.1 or newer
• PostgreSQL 12 or newer
• MySQL 8.0.13+ / MariaDB 10.1
• AWS RDS
• Aurora PostgreSQL
• SQLite3
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019 or newer
• Oracle 19c or newer -- the GitHub projects do not support this

Info

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

Application Programming Interfaces (API)

• C
• Python
• Java

Data Input and Output Formats

• CSV -- supported by some utility scripts, the API is JSON
• JSON

Python

• Python 3.7.3+ 
• psycopg2 Python module if using PostgreSQL as the Senzing repository
• ptable or prettytable Python module (used by G2Explorer utility)

Using Ubuntu 22.04 Linux

Ubuntu 22.04 uses OpenSSL v3 which is not backward compatible with v1.1 which Senzing requires.

Link

 

• Performance FAQ
• Hardware Sizing Guide
• Database FAQ