HAPI FHIR: Database Support (PostgreSQL)

[Rafael Weingartner-Ortner]

Hi, 

I'm currently running HAPI FHIR v5.4.1 with Postgres 13.3 as the database via Docker. Since I want to upgrade to HAPI FHIR v6, I also wanted to use the opportunity to upgrade the PostgreSQL database to e.g. 15. 

However, I could not determine whether this version is supported. In fact, the docs only mention that Postgres is supported but not which versions. Can someone tell me which versions of Postgres are supported? Thanks!

[Kevin Dougan]

Hi there,

You can find more detailed information on the Smile CDR Platform Requirements web page here:

https://smilecdr.com/docs/getting_started/platform_requirements.html#database-requirements

Kevin

[Rafael Weingartner-Ortner]

Thanks for the information! 

So I can assume that the requirements for the Smile CDR Platform are the same as for HAPI FHIR? I know that this is kinda off-topic but I still don't fully understand the difference between the two.

[Kevin Dougan]

Hi again,

HAPI-FHIR (https://hapifhir.io/) is an Open Source implementation of the HL7 FHIR Specification in Java. The Source Code is available here:

https://github.com/hapifhir/hapi-fhir

Smile CDR is a product created and maintained by Smile Digital Health (https://www.smilecdr.com/) which sits on top of HAPI-FHIR and provides numerous additional Enterprise-ready features & enhancements:

https://smilecdr.com/docs/introduction/table_of_contents.html

Therefore, Smile CDR contains all of the libraries provided by HAPI-FHIR and it utilizes those libraries to provide database persistence services, amongst many other features of the specification.

I hope this helps clarify things!

Kevin

[Rafael Weingartner-Ortner]

Thanks a lot for the explanation and clarification!

Rafael