Is Spring Data JDBC v1.1.5 recommended for Oracle Database and Enterprise Applications? Lot of samples around the net based on Open Source RDBMS (H2 or PostgreSQL). We are using Spring Data JDBC in a Spring Boot Microservice Application, facing following problems.
Force to write custom converters for oracle.sql.TIMESTAMP, oracle.sql.TIMESTAMPTZ and oracle.sql.DATE and oracle.sql.ROWID etc..
Can't type cast oracle.sql.ROWID to java.lang.Number
Identity must not be null after save.
Spring Data JDBC is absolutely recommended for Enterprise Applications.
Not so much for use with Oracle.
Since the necessary resources (database & JDBC driver) weren't available in a form that could be easily used in integration tests on public platforms, Oracle isn't included in regular builds.
Therefore it is likely that one encounters issues when working with Oracle.
Some are already known, for others issues in Jira or even PRs are highly appreciated.
Related
I created user in oracle database and I am trying to create session but I find many ways in spring boot so what is the easy way if I want to create classe connections using the Username and Password ?
You can jdbc template, spring data JDBC or spring data JPA, well depending on your use case.
If your data model is quite complex, you should avoid using the JDBC template as you will need to write prepared statements which can be cumbersome. JPA will allow you to use object-oriented programming principles and also will help you map the entities to your database columns.
For example, if you are going to use spring data JPA, you need to set the application properties as follows:
spring.datasource.type=oracle.oracleucp.jdbc.UCPDataSource
spring.datasource.oracleucp.connection-factory-class-name=oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource
spring.datasource.oracleucp.sql-for-validate-connection=select * from dual
spring.datasource.oracleucp.connection-pool-name=UcpPoolBooks
spring.datasource.oracleucp.initial-pool-size=5
spring.datasource.oracleucp.min-pool-size=5
spring.datasource.oracleucp.max-pool-size=10
This would behind the scene create an Oracle Datasource. In this example, we are using Oracle Universal Connection Pooling. You can also use HikariCP which is quite popular.
check this out
If you want to use UCP with above properties then you must have SpringBoot version higher than 2.4.0.
Check out the Spring Boot code sample on GitHub.
We have developed a Spring Boot Java application which access a DB2 database.
Now the system has been live for some time, we see the DB2 database crash every few weeks, which has caused us to review what cursor settings we have used.
This is where I have struggled - I just cant seem to find a way to influence the JDBC cursor types through Spring. And I worry that we may now need to rewrite the application with direct JDBC calls in order to be able to influence the cursor settings.
I am not a spring developer but have worked extensively with JDBC over the years which is why I have been asked to look at this.
I found many examples of using spring boot reactive with document databases, but none with SQL databases.
I see that it may not support sql databases yet, probably because some missing feature on the jpa/jdbc stack.
I also see that there is no point to use reactive services that depend on the a sql database with no reactive support.
The question here is: Is there any ongoing development to make this happen (reactive jpa)?
There is a reactive feature built into many RDBMSs called "Change Data Capture" which writes data to an async transaction log for an enabled table. Usually, reactive systems built to stream this data are built on top of that feature. For example, a well-known open source tool that does this is Debezium. You can find other open source projects online that do something similar, or to write your own using the simple CDC functions that are usually provided to support it.
Is it possible to use Hibernate and RDBMS(Mysql, Postgres etc) with ReactiveCrudRepository instead of CrudRepository? I have tried some samples with Spring Data Jpa and Hibernate, but couldn't get it done. I was only able to find a few samples on ReactiveCrudRepository for MongoDB and cassandra.
Is it possible to use Hibernate and Mysql with ReactiveCrudRepository instead of CrudRepository?
TL;DR:
Not with Hibernate and MySQL, but with R2DBC and Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server or H2.
Take a look at Spring Data R2DBC.
Long Version
Why not JPA?
With Hibernate/JPA included this won't happen in the foreseeable future.
JPA is based on the idea that you load part of your data model into memory, manipulate the resulting object model and let JPA transform these changes.
All this within a single transaction.
This is kind of the opposite how one deals with a reactive store where you try to make atomic changes and try to decouple the loading, processing and storing and all this without blocking.
Why not JDBC?
So we have to look at the technology level below JPA: JDBC.
But JDBC is still blocking: You send a SQL statement to your database and then JDBC will block until you get the result.
And again this goes against the idea of reactive: Never block.
One could wrap this in a thread pool to mitigate this to some extent, but that is more of a workaround than a solution.
Why R2DBC?
There are some suitable drivers for some databases that could be used for reactive repositories.
But they are proprietary and thereby not a good basis for something that really should eventually work across all (relevant) relational databases.
For some time the Spring Data team hoped that ADBA would fill that gap.
But discussions on the mailing list made it clear that ADBA was not aiming for reactive but only for asynchronous.
Again not what we needed for a reactive repository abstraction.
So early in 2018 various people living at the intersection or reactive and relational decided that we need a standard for reactive database access.
R2DBC (Reactive Relational Database Connectivity)
is a proposal for such a standard.
The hope is that it either helps convincing Oracle to move ADBA to a reactive approach or if that doesn't happen it becomes the standard itself.
And with already three implementations available chances for the second option look promising.
R2DBC itself is mainly an SPI, i.e. an API that is to be implemented by database providers.
The SPI is designed in a way that puts minimal requirements on implementers.
But this also makes R2DBC somewhat cumbersome to use.
The idea is that other libraries will step up and build libraries designed for usability on top of that SPI, as it happened with JDBC.
Spring Data R2DBC
Spring Data R2DBC is one such library and it offers what you asked for: Support for ReactiveCrudRepository although it is independent of JPA/Hibernate and there is no support for MySQL yet.
State of the projects
Both R2DBC and Spring Data R2DBC didn't have a production release yet and it will take at least several months to get there.
Spring Data R2DBC just released the first milestone.
See the release article for its current capabilities.
R2DBC is on its 6th milestone. See the release article for details.
See also this answer: Why does Spring not provide reactive (non-blocking) clients for relational databases?
Original answer as a reference for archeologists:
As of now (Jan 2017) it is not possible.
The currently relevant release for the reactive part of Spring Data is Spring Data Kay M1 (You can check if there is a newer version available on the project home page)
And a blog post from the Spring Data team about that release and specifically the reactive parts in it starts with (emphasis mine):
Spring Data Kay M1 is the first release ever that comes with support for reactive data access. Its initial set of supported stores — MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, and Redis — all ship reactive drivers already, which made them very natural candidates for such a prototype.
The reason is that there is no standard non-blocking way to access a relational database. So only those that support this kind of API are supported right now.
One could implement a ReactiveCrudRepository using JPA or JDBC and delegate the work to a thread pool. This would provide an async API on the outside, but would still consume the resources for the Threads and block between independent data accesses, so only a small part of the benefits of the reactive approach would get realized.
Hibernate started a new Hibernate Reactive subproject for reactive streams support which provides Hibernate/JPA similar APIs to access RDBMS. But unfortunately at the moment, Spring Data does not support it. So there is no a ReactiveCrudRepoisoty for Hibernate Reactive.
But you can integrate Hibernate with Spring yourself and get reactive support.
Define a persistence.xml file, note the provider class must be specified as the one in Hibernate Reactive.
Declare a Mutiny.SessionFactory bean.
Then inject it in your repository class.
I have created a complete example demos Hibernate Reactive + Spring.
Update: Till now Spring team has no plan to support it, if you are willing to taste other framework, check Quarkus and Micronaunt, both have seamless Hibernate Reactive support. Check my Quarkus Hibernate Reactive example and Micronaut Hibernate Reactive example.
According to quote from previous answer
One could implement a ReactiveCrudRepository using JPA or JDBC and delegating the work to a thread pool. This would provide an async API on the outside, but would still consume the resources for the Threads and block between independent data accesses, so only a small part of the benefits of the reactive approach would get realized.
James Ward claims it can be non-blocking. I mean I asked him:
yeah ok, but isn't ScalikeJDBC-Async doing exactly the same? just putting query invocation into another thread pool?
and he replied
No because ScalalikeJDBC-Async uses https://github.com/mauricio... which is actually a non-blocking (NIO) JDBCish database driver.
source
So you can be reactive by replacing hibernate + spring data with postgresql-async (should work with mysql).
you could try with quarkus framework and panache mongo hibernate reactive repositories. https://quarkus.io/guides/mongodb-panache .It is easy manage a reactive repository over mongoDB, It is later but hope helps.
In my previous spring projects, I always use hibernate+postgresql to store the data. I rencently start to use spring-boot, and I am looking for a database system which allow me embed it in my project, without be required the installation of a external DBMS.
I try use SQLite, but in my searches I found some afirmations Hibernate isn't compatible with SQLite.
Anyone knows if this is possible and could point me a solution?
We've successfuly used HSQLDB with Hibernate for ages.
This is actually super cool for sales, you can demonstrate a working application on (potential) customers machine with the embedded HSQLDB database. And still be able to switch to "the real thing" later on.
See also this:
Does Hibernate Fully Support SQLite
and this:
https://code.google.com/p/hibernate-sqlite/