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Comment: A JRE is required, not (necessarily) a JDK

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Prerequisite

The only prerequisite to run for running Sonar is to have Java (Oracle JDK 1.5 JRE 6 onwards) installed on your machine.

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  1. The Sonar web server requires at least 500Mb of RAM to run efficiently.
  2. In terms The amount of data space and as an indication, on disk space you need will depend on how much code you analyze with Sonar. As an example, Nemo the public instance of Sonar, 10Go of data space are used to analyze has more than 13 million millions Lines of Code under analysis with an history of 4 years of history. Nemo is currently running on a Amazon EC2 small instance.To get the full experience Sonar has to offer, you should enable Javascript in your browser., using  about 10 Gb of drive space

Supported Platforms

Servers Browsers 

Java

 

Oracle JDKJRE

(tick) 1.5 6
(tick) 1.6
(warning) 1. 7 not tested and there is a user, who reported about possible problem - http://markmail.org/message/e22ar72xybvq5zgj

IBM JDKJRE

(error)

GCJ

(error)

Oracle JRockit(error)

Database

 

Apache Derby

(tick) Prior to Sonar 3.2. Bundled with Sonar 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.

H2(tick) Since Sonar 3.2. Bundled with Sonar 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.

Microsoft SQL Server

(tick) 2005 with bundled jTDS driver. Microsoft drivers are not supported. Express Edition is supported
(warning) 2008 is not supported but is successfully tested by some users.
(tick) 2008 with bundled jTDS driver. Microsoft drivers are not supported. Express Edition is supported.
(warning) Collation must be case-sensitive (CS) and accent-sensitive (AS)

MySQL

(tick) 5.x with bundled JDBC Connector/J 0, 5.1
(tick) 6.x with bundled JDBC Connector/J 5.1and 5.5 with the driver packaged with Sonar.
(warning) 5.6 is supported in Sonar 3.5 (see SONAR-4137).

Oracle

(tick) 10G with Oracle 11.2.x drivers
(tick) 11G with Oracle 11.2.x drivers
(tick) XE Editions are supported
(warning) The driver ojdbc14.jar is not supported
(warning) Only the thin mode is supported, not OCI

PostgreSQL

(tick) 8.3
(tick) 8.4
(tick) 9.0 (from version 2.6 onwards)
(tick) 9.1 (from version 2.6 onwards)

Application

Server

 

Jetty 6

(tick) Bundled with Sonar

Apache Tomcat

(tick) 5.5
(tick) 6.0
(warning) (tick) 7.0 not tested

JBoss(error)
GlassFish(error)

 Web

Browser

To get the full experience Sonar has to offer, you should enable Javascript in your browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

(tick) IE7 (not compatible with Views administration console)
(tick) IE8
(tick) IE9 is fully supported from version 2.12 onwards.

Mozilla Firefox

(tick) All versions Supported

Google Chrome

(tick) Latest stable version supported
(tick) Tested with 12 Supported

Opera

(warning) Not tested

Safari

(tick) Latest stable version supported Supported