• H2: Non-production, single server deployments for evaluation or demo purposes

• PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server: Either can be used in production. The primary discriminator is the comfort factor of the operating IT professionals within your organization. In addition:

◦ PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server are enterprise-grade production databases with wide industry adoption.

◦ PostgreSQL is the most widely used with ThingWorx, and can be considered the most mature due to the large ThingWorx user base and length of existence.

◦ While PostgreSQL is open source, PTC has documented most installation and configuration steps that are necessary to use with ThingWorx. See Using PostgreSQL as your Persistence Provider .

◦ The commercial data store option, MSSQL Server, assumes that the user is familiar with capacity planning, installation, and configuration of this data store and meet their licensing requirements.

◦ PTC does not ship the JDBC drivers required to operate with MS SQL Server due to licensing restrictions. You are expected to acquire these drivers from the vendor.