SOX System Requirements

As of SOX v. 4.0.0, MySQL 8.x will be the database (RDBMS) installation required.

SOX Client

Property

Value

Comment

Property

Value

Comment

Operating System

Windows 10 or 11

64-Bit

Primary Memory (RAM)

8 GB minimum

12 GB recommended

Hard Drive

500 MB (client application installation) + minimum 5 GB for embedded database

SSD recommended

 

SOX Server

Property

Value

Comment

Property

Value

Comment

Operating System

Ubuntu (Server) 14.04 or higher, Windows Server 2012 or higher, Windows 10

64-Bit

Primary Memory (RAM)

12 GB minimum

16 GB recommended

Hard Drive

500 MB (client application installation) + minimum 5 GB for embedded database

SSD recommended

Supported Databases

SOX v4.x:

MySQL 8 RDBMS, default encodings utf8 (which is same as utf8mb3)

 

OLDER SOX v3.x:

(MySQL 5.7 for older SOX server versions), Oracle 11 XE or higher, H2-DB V1.3

for use as a production system, a MySQL DB is recommended

Character Encodings

utf8

same as utf8mb3