2. System Sizing : How Much Memory Do I Need? : Operating System Considerations
 
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Operating System Considerations
Vector is available on 64-bit Linux and Windows operating systems. You will experience dramatic query performance improvements for data analysis and reporting workloads on either platform compared to other relational databases using the same hardware.
If you use large amounts of memory for a single operation (greater than 10 GB) then you will likely experience better performance using Linux compared to Windows on the same system due to the more efficient large memory management capabilities of Linux.