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)

• CentOS 7 or newer
• RedHat 7 or newer
• Debian 10 or newer - see Using Debian Based Linux below
• Ubuntu 16.10 or newer - see Using Debian Based Linux below
• Amazon Linux 2017 or newer
• Windows 10 64bit (Limited Availability for OEM partners and Java/C developers)
• macOS Mojave and Catalina (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
• 100 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) or NVMe storage

Relational Database

• IBM Db2 11.1 or newer
• PostgreSQL 11 or newer
• MySQL 8.0.13+ / MariaDB 10.1
• AWS RDS
• Aurora PostgreSQL
• SQLite3
• Microsoft SQL Server 2017

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 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 3.6.3+ 

Using Debian or Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu and Debian use an incompatible version of libssl and libcrypto, additional libraries are included in <project path>/lib/debian and are amended to LD_LIBRARY_PATH via the setupEnv script.

Link

 

• Performance FAQ
• Hardware Sizing Guide
• Database FAQ