The only prerequisite for running SonarQube is to have Java (Oracle JRE 6 onwards) installed on your machine.
Hardware Requirements
The SonarQube web server requires at least 500Mb of RAM to run efficiently.
The amount of disk space you need will depend on how much code you analyze with SonarQube. As an example, Nemo the public instance of SonarQube, has more than 13 millions Lines of Code under analysis with 4 years of history. Nemo is currently running on a Amazon EC2 small instance, using about 10 Gb of drive space
Prior to SonarQube 3.2. Bundled with SonarQube but supported for evaluation use only. Although using the Derby database gives access to a fully functional version, upgrades are disabled. Therefore, before deploying to a production environment, we strongly recommend that you use an enterprise database.
Since SonarQube 3.2. Bundled with SonarQube but supported for evaluation use only. Although using the H2 database gives access to a fully functional version, upgrades are disabled. Therefore, before deploying to a production environment, we strongly recommend that you use an enterprise database.
2005 with bundled jTDS driver. Microsoft drivers are not supported. Express Edition is supported. 2008 with bundled jTDS driver. Microsoft drivers are not supported. Express Edition is supported. Collation must be case-sensitive (CS) and accent-sensitive (AS)
10G with Oracle 11.2.x drivers 11G with Oracle 11.2.x drivers XE Editions are supported The driver ojdbc14.jar is not supported Only the thin mode is supported, not OCI