Operating systems 


Windows Server 2008 R2 or above
Windows 7 or above
Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Server 2008 or above

Individual user/

Small team

  • 100 Projects
  • 1-3 Concurrent users
  • Light Usage

2 Core (2.8GHz or more suggested), 4GB Ram

Ability to use SQL Server Express edition. Read More

Multiple small teams/

Large team

  • Over 100 Projects
  • 3-10 Concurrent users
  • Medium Usage
8 Core (2.8GHz or more suggested) 10 Ram

Multiple large teams/

Department/Division

  • Over 100 Projects
  • Over 10 users
  • Heavy Usage

16 Core  (2.8GHz or more suggested) 16 Ram

Ability to scale and resize hardware specifications depending the usage and the number of concurrent users.

Hard Disk

At least 100GB of space (requires much more spaces in case of BIM models as one big model can consume up to 1G)

SSD is recommended

 

For SQL server editions and limitations Read More

 

SQL Server Express

SQL Server Express may only be used at no charge for development and testing, as well as for “micro workloads” such as mobile or web apps with minimal relational database requirements. The free license does not apply to instances running on virtual machines

 

Database Filestream

Filestream is a recommended feature that could be enabled on the Database Instance that CostOS will use.

Filestream, as a feature, allows binary data to be saved to the filesystem instead of the database. This provides a performance enhancement, when used for large ammounts of data. Furthermore, Filestream protects data integrity because the file operations are performed as part of a transaction.

Filestream Data are still saved in tables, like traditional BLOB data types.

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Normally, CostOS Server Installer will enable and configure this feature automatically. See more at Install and configure CostOS Application Database (Microsoft SQL Server)