Yes, for example the north-america docker project says "As a fairly large build, this will require significant resources to complete quickly. It can still run on a personal computer with 8GB+ RAM, but will take a while. It will require 300GB or so of disk space."

https://github.com/pelias/docker/tree/master/projects/north-...

(Building the db typically takes more resources than just running the services using the db.)