Database server
CAST Imaging requires an RDBMS component to store both the data generated during analyses and persistence data (settings/properties etc.). CAST supports only PostgreSQL as follows:
- CAST Storage Service - a PostgreSQL instance packaged and provided by CAST for installation on Microsoft Windows with its own custom installer and pre-configured settings.
- PostgreSQL - a standard installation direct on Linux, or through Docker, of an official PostgreSQL release.
There can be one or multiple instances of this component in a deployment. Multiple instances can be installed in order to load-balance your analysis and data storage requirements.
- See also Database requirements.
- CAST provides one single instance of the database component automatically as a container when installing CAST Imaging on Linux via Docker. When installing CAST Imaging on Microsoft Windows, this component must be obtained and installed separately. Additional remote instances can also be deployed in both cases.
See the installation instructions below.