ComparaView is a web application (meaning it lives inside a web browser).
ComparaView makes use of Internet Information Service (IIS), SQL Server and the .NET Framework. ComparaView is currently supported on versions of Microsoft components listed below.
As of (September 2017) ComparaView is a Windows only system as it is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Operating System |
Windows 10 |
Web Browser |
Edge Internet Explorer 11 Firefox 55+ Chrome 60+ |
Operating System |
Windows 10 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016 |
Webserver |
Internet Information Server (IIS) Note: version of IIS is dependent on the version of Windows OS used. The IIS version contained in each of the above OSs is acceptable for running ComparaView. |
Database Server |
SQL Server 2016 SQL Server 2014 SQL Server 2012 |
.NET Framework |
4.6 (minimum version) 4.6.1 4.6.2 |
Microsoft Components |
Web Deploy 3.6+ |
Note: ComparaView may work on other configurations of Windows components however any components not listed here have not been tested.
Recommendation is to run ComparaView across two servers
IIS Server | |
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RAM |
8GB |
Disk Space |
2GB |
SQL Server | |
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RAM |
8GB |
Disk Space |
Dependent on volume of data. Recommend separate physical storage each for mdf & ldf files. Recommend not to store data files on same disk as the OS. |
ComparaView is delivered as an MS Deploy package, which installs ComparaView into an existing instance of IIS. The installation process (of ComparaView and its dependencies) is extensively documented in an accompanying installation manual.