Hardware Recommendations

You can install and run VIVO on most modern PC, laptop, or server hardware. Whilst the application layer needs a reasonable amount of memory, the majority of the workload is placed on the storage layers, which as a semantic web application means the triple store. As VIVO aims to be agnostic to the triple store, the precise requirements will depend on your choice of triple store. However, the default configuration is to use Jena SDB backed by MySQL - in this setup, it is recommended that you have very high IO bandwidth for the file system used by MySQL, and significant memory for caching layers of the database engine.

Minimum Specification

Recommended Specification

Prerequisite Software

Java 1.8 or later

Maven 3.0.3 or later

An SQL Database

Java 1.8 or later

Maven 3.0.3 or later

An SQL database - e.g. MySQL / MariaDB (or any other supported by Jena SDB)