What are the hardware requirements for MaxDB?
Despite being designed as an enterprise-class DBMS, the use of MaxDB is not restricted to multi-user server-based scenarios. As its ease-of-use capabilities are built in and not built around, it can also be used as a desktop or laptop DBMS with a very small footprint. If used as an enterprise class server, MaxDB needs a machine suitably equipped. Database severs in general need fast I/O interfaces and lots of main memory. A fast storage system is required to minimize the performance gap between persistent storage, main memory and CPU internal caches. Fast network interfaces are needed for the TCP/IP based communication between remote application clients and the ‘X Server’ communication component of MaxDB. Main memory is important to cache as much data as possible. Disk accesses are roughly 1.000 times slower than memory accesses. The hardware you need depends very much on your application. Please understand that we cannot give you clear hardware recommendations, Feel free to ask users
