Platform Requirements

We detail the minimum requirements for compiling RocksDB and optionally RocksJava, and running RocksJava binaries supplied via Maven Central.

Compiling

All platforms

• Java: OpenJDK 1.7+ (required only for RocksJava)
• Tools:
  • curl (recommended; required only for RocksJava)
• Libraries:
  • gflags 2.0+ (required for testing and benchmark code)
  • zlib 1.2.8+ (optional)
  • bzip2 1.0.6+ (optional)
  • lz4 r131+ (optional)
  • snappy 1.1.3+ (optional)
  • zstandard 0.5.1+ (optional)

Linux

• Architecture: x86 / x86_64 / arm64 / ppc64le / s390x
• C/C++ Compiler: GCC 4.8+ or Clang
• Tools:
  • GNU Make or CMake 3.14.5+

macOS

• Architecture: x86_64 / arm64 (Apple Silicon)
• OS: macOS 10.12+
• C/C++ Compiler: Apple XCode Clang
• Tools:
  • GNU Make or CMake 3.14.5+

Windows

• Architecture: x86_64
• OS: Windows 7+
• C/C++ Compiler: Microsoft Visual Studio 2015+
• Java: OpenJDK 1.7+ (required only for RocksJava)
• Tools:
  • CMake 3.14.5+

RocksJava Binaries

The minimum requirements for running the official RocksJava binaries from Maven Central.

For all platforms the native component of the binaries is statically linked, and so requires very little. The Java component requires OpenJDK 1.7+.

The binaries are built using Docker containers on real hardware, you can find our Docker build containers here: https://github.com/evolvedbinary/docker-rocksjava

Linux

For Linux we provide binaries built for either GNU Lib C, or Musl based platforms (since RocksJava 6.5.2).

Architecture	glibc version (minimum)	muslc version (minimum)
x86	2.12	1.1.16
x86_64	2.12	1.1.16
aarch64	2.17	1.1.16
ppc64le	2.17	1.1.16
s390x (z10)	2.17	1.1.16

macOS

• Architecture: x86_64
• OS: macOS 10.12+

Windows

The Windows binaries are built on Windows Server 2012 with Visual Studio 2015.

• Architecture: x86_64
• OS: Windows 7+
• libc: Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64) - 14.0.24215