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[[_database]]
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== Setting up the relational database
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{project_name} comes with its own embedded Java-based relational database called H2.
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This is the default database that {project_name} will use to persist data and really only exists so that you can run the authentication
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server out of the box. We highly recommend that you replace it with a more production ready external database. The H2 database
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is not very viable in high concurrency situations and should not be used in a cluster either. The purpose of this chapter is to
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show you how to connect {project_name} to a more mature database.
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{project_name} uses two layered technologies to persist its relational data. The bottom layered technology is JDBC. JDBC
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is a Java API that is used to connect to a RDBMS. There are different JDBC drivers per database type that are provided
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by your database vendor. This chapter discusses how to configure {project_name} to use one of these vendor-specific drivers.
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The top layered technology for persistence is Hibernate JPA. This is an object to relational mapping API that maps Java
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Objects to relational data. Most deployments of {project_name} will never have to touch the configuration aspects
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of Hibernate, but we will discuss how that is done if you run into that rare circumstance.
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NOTE: Datasource configuration is covered much more thoroughly in link:{appserver_datasource_link}[the datasource configuration chapter]
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in the _{appserver_admindoc_name}_.
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