System requirements

Liquibase is designed to run with minimal hardware and software.

Liquibase tests with English language databases only. Other languages with special characters may cause issues.

Hardware

• Disk space: 300 MB

• Processor: Intel Core i3, ARM processor, 1 CPU

• Memory: 1 GB RAM

Software

• Any version of Windows, macOS, or Linux/Unix with a supported Java installation.

• Java 17 is the minimum required version. Our team regularly tests on Java 17 and 21, and Liquibase ships with Java 21.

• If you use the Liquibase Installer, Java is included automatically.

• If you install Liquibase manually, you must also install Java, which is available from Adoptium. If you use the Liquibase Installer, this version of Java is used during installation.

Memory sizing for diff-class commands

snapshot, diff, and related commands can require significant JVM heap on large schemas. See Size JVM heap and RAM for diff-class commands for a sizing matrix and step-by-step guidance.