A Teiid instance even as swarm or springboot needs additional considerations to minimize the runtime footprint. This includes:

• container aware auto-sizing. Detection of the number of cpus and available memory need refined - there are experimental settings being considered for containerized vms to better report these values and there is logic in WildFly and other projects that attempts better auto-detection. We also need to utilize the memory buffer space more and probably as off-heap space (and ideally direct operations on the serialized data)
• Subsystems required include JTA, webserver, security, which could be satisfied by slimmer alternative versions - especially if we make new assumptions, such as not utilizing xa transactions.
• Engine dependencies could be application specific - removing xml/xsl support, geometry support, etc.