# Raspberry Pi Build Recommendations

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/raspberry-pi-build-recommendations/37882>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [August 18, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/raspberry-pi-build-recommendations/37882 "2020-08-18T20:26:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![MikeAllgood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MikeAllgood](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MikeAllgood)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/raspberry-pi-build-recommendations/37882/1 "2020-08-18T20:26:58Z")

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I am working on a personal project using Raspberry Pi’s and Maker Edition.  
The issue is I am not a RPi person (first time using one), nor am I a Linux person, so I keep running into issues. I’ve found that some of these are due to compatibility issues with the ARM processors.  
After resolving one issue, I run head long into another!  
So I wanted to get some guidance from those of you who are experience in these aspects.  
I have a RPi 4B that I want to run the Gateway on and a Perspective client. I would like to have a database running there as well to log & trend data.  
Using the RPi, what OS should I use in this instance that will allow for max resource utilization as well as provide a platform to install the DB software? What DB software would be preferred? I’d think MySQL would be good, but with Ubuntu 20.04 on this RPi I was not able to get the MySQL Workbench to install.

Any help the community can provide is always appreciated.  
Mike