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Minimum Hardware Requirements

OpenMetadata requires either MySQL or PostgreSQL as Backend Database and ElasticSearch or OpenSearch as Search Engine.

Please refer to the architecture section for more details.

We recommend the following for the Production Grade OpenMetadata Installation -

MySQL or PostgreSQL as Database

Our minimum specs recommendation for MySQL / PostgreSQL as database deployment is

  • 4 vCPUs
  • 16 GiB Memory
  • 100 GiB Storage

These settings apply as well when using managed instances, such as AWS RDS or GCP CloudSQL or Azure Flexible Servers.

Software Requirements

OpenMetadata currently supports -

  • MySQL version 8.0.0 or higher
  • PostgreSQL version 12.0 or higher

ElasticSearch or OpenSearch as Search Instance

Our minimum specs recommendation for ElasticSearch / OpenSearch deployment is

  • 2 vCPUs
  • 8 GiB Memory
  • 100 GiB Storage (per node)
  • Master / Worker Nodes with atleast 1 Master and 2 Worker Nodes

Software Requirements

OpenMetadata currently supports -

  • ElasticSearch version 8.X till 8.11.4
  • OpenSearch version 2.7

These settings apply as well when using managed instances, such as AWS OpenSearch Service or Elastic Cloud on GCP, AWS, Azure.

Apache Airflow as Ingestion Instance

Our minimum specs recommendation for Apache Airflow is

  • 4 vCPU
  • 16 GiB Memory
  • 100 GiB Storage for Airflow Dags and Logs

Software Requirements

OpenMetadata currently supports -

  • Airflow version 2.9.1

Learn more about how to deploy and manage the ingestion workflows here.