B4J Question Raspberry Pi Gen1 Model B

barx

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Hi
I have an old raspberry pi Gen1. Never really used it much, but trying to make use of it now in a project for my house. Currently running an MQTT broker on it. I also want to store the MQTT messages in a database (probably a local SQLite) and create web server API functionality to serve historic data from DB in JSON format and maybe serve web pages to graph the historic data. I was going to try do this in Python as I thought Java would give too much overhead for the old unit, but from reading a few article, Java appears to actually run faster.

My questions are:
  • Would Java (non-ui) run ok on my old Pi?
  • Would it be faster than a python script?
  • Which version of Java to install. I see a couple of tutorials for installing Java on Pis, not sure which would be best.
Thanks
 
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