Supported Configurations

TIBCO Spotfire Data Streams supports Windows and macOS platforms for development, and supports Windows and Linux platforms for production deployment. MacOS platforms are not supported for build or production servers. In all cases, these are 64-bit platforms running on Intel or AMD x86_64 hardware.

The StreamBase Studio development environment is supported on:

The StreamBase Runtime for build or staging servers and for production deployment is supported on the following platforms:

On Red Hat platforms, TIBCO supports and recommends Red Hat Enterprise MRG Realtime for deployments that require low-latency processing.

For all Linux systems, see the Perl, Zip, and compatibility library requirements below.

The StreamBase Runtime is explicitly not supported for build, staging, or production deployment on:

In all cases, TIBCO Spotfire Data Streams supports the latest service packs and operating system updates.

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*macOS 10.14 Mojave's Dark Mode and similar cosmetic features are not currently supported in Studio due to Eclipse compatibility issues. Also, when first selecting the Open StreamBase Command Terminal Here feature in Studio, you are prompted for permission to control the terminal. This is expected behavior.

**On RHEL 7 and its related distributions, the recommended installation procedure is the archive-bin method. There are known issues when using the RPM installer.

StreamBase Studio and the StreamBase Runtime require an installation of Oracle JDK 8.

On all supported operating systems, the TIBCO Spotfire Data Streams installation kit provides the runtime components of Oracle JDK version 1.8.0_212 in a subdirectory of the StreamBase installation directory, in order to run StreamBase program fragments and applications from within StreamBase Studio.

However, starting with Spotfire Data Streams release 10.4.0, StreamBase Studio detects and prefers a system-installed Oracle JDK version 8 over the bundled JDK. Using a system-installed JDK allows you to take advantage of cryptography features of the JDK that TIBCO is not licensed to include with Spotfire Data Streams and allows you to manage JDKs independent of StreamBase.

See Installing a JDK for further information.

The mvn command shipped with StreamBase runs with Java and must be able to locate a java command in the PATH or in standard installation locations. The system Java JRE detected by the mvn command is not required to be from the same 1.8 release family required by Studio and the StreamBase Runtime. However, TIBCO recommends using the same Oracle JDK release for your system-level JDK as the one shipped with Studio, or a newer release. See Installing a JDK for further information.

In particular, if your site’s Kerberos server infrastructure uses stronger encryption levels (such as AES-256) than the ones supported by the standard Oracle JDK shipped with StreamBase, you may need to download and install the Java Cryptography Extension Unlimited Strength package from Oracle. Consult with your site's Kerberos administrators for site-specific requirements.

When configuring TLS, TIBCO strongly recommends installing a provider such as BouncyCastle or the official Oracle JDK, to enable the modern and generally recommended ECDHE ciphers.

See Installing a JDK for further information.

*For production servers, determine the appropriate RAM amount from peak-load and volume testing on your staging servers.

There is an exception for the .NET Client API documentation, which is only provided on Windows systems. To view this documentation without complications, you must use Firefox or a Microsoft-provided browser. This page of the documentation describes the workarounds available for Webkit-based browsers such as Chrome or Opera.

RHEL 7 servers and their compatibles require the gdb and sysstat packages in addition to perl and zip.

For all RHEL compatible Linux servers, use the yum package manager to verify that these packages are installed. For example, yum list gdb.

To install a package, use commands like the following:

sudo yum install perl.x86_64
sudo yum install zip.x86_64
sudo yum install unzip.x86_64
sudo yum install gdb.x86_64
sudo yum install sysstat.x86_64

StreamBase applications can interact with supported external databases as follows:

StreamBase does not support building clients with GCC 4.6 or newer, which are the default compilers on newer Linux distributions. On such distributions, install GCC and G++ 4.5 from your distribution's repository, and set the CC and CXX environment variables before building StreamBase C++ code. For example, set CC=gcc-4.5 and CXX=g++-4.5.

To build C++ clients on macOS, install the latest Xcode version and the Command Line Tools for Xcode released for your macOS version. (These are free downloads, but require an Apple ID.) The Command Line Tools package provides the clang compiler. On macOS, building custom functions are not supported.

To compile C++ StreamBase client applications for Windows, TIBCO StreamBase supports:

See Configuring Visual C++ for instructions on configuring your Visual C++ projects for use with the StreamBase C++ API.

Adapters are programs that convert data to and from the StreamBase tuple protocol.

Embedded adapters execute in the same StreamBase Runtime process that runs your StreamBase program fragment. The base TIBCO StreamBase installation includes a large collection of embedded adapters, described in the Adapters Guide.

Most embedded adapters are Java-based, and run on all platforms that support the StreamBase Runtime. Embedded adapters that make calls to third-party native libraries are restricted to the platforms for which such libraries are provided.

The TIBCO StreamBase® Add-in for Microsoft Excel lets you use a StreamBase or LiveView application in combination with an Excel spreadsheet to process tuple data in real time and to display the data dynamically. The Excel Add-in is bidirectional and can both receive data from an application and publish data to a running application.

The Add-in is only supported on Windows platforms. To use it, you must have Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, or 2016.

The Add-in is distributed in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions; match these to the bitness of your Microsoft Office installation, not the bitness of your Windows installation.

The Excel Add-in is packaged separately from TIBCO StreamBase. If you have a license for it, you can download, install, and run the Add-in. To acquire a license, contact your TIBCO Sales representative.

The adapters take advantage of the tibrvj.jar JAR file distributed with your Rendezvous installation. Thus, the StreamBase Rendezvous adapters support the Rendezvous version of the customer-provided JAR file.

The StreamBase operators for TIBCO ActiveSpaces support ActiveSpaces 3.0 and later, including 4.x.

StreamBase includes a separate set of legacy operators, now deprecated, to support ActiveSpaces 2 releases, starting with version 2.1.

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