Hi all, TL;DR: Does anyone actually use Postgres with ARM based low performance hardware and only 256 MiB of RAM? What are your experiences in other stripped down environments? Is there some lower RAM limit with which using Postgres doesn't make any sense anymore? Is Postgres able to compete with SQLite regaridng lower performance boundaries or is there some point at which SQLite will be the better choice, because Postgres needs some more resources to work properly? Thanks! Background: I have some server side backend exposing web services and storing data in Postgres. The stored data are telegrams from smart metering devices, lots of them, mostly small. The provided web services take care of generating reports etc. based on those telegrams. It's now considered to put large parts of that backend onto some ARM based IoT device, simply because that device would do a lot of the same things. The available backend is Java-based, so it would simply be possible as well and I already ran things on some Raspi-like hardware and things worked pretty well. OTOH, the targetted hardware is less capable than some Raspi, we talk about only 256 MiB of RAM currently. The exact details of the hardware are not clear yet. In the easiest case, the newly created device would only need to store some hundreds of telegrams per day in some known time window and forward those telegrams afterwards. In most cases it would be those of the same day only, but might be those of the last X few days as well in case of problems. In the long term, though, that device should be able to store telegrams for years and might generate reports on it's own as well. I've already found some interesting infos like the following, but would be interested in other expereinces as well. https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2019/sessions/session/2781/slides/251/PostgreSQL%20for%20IoT.pdf Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning -- Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: Thorsten.Schoening@xxxxxxxxxx AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow
