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Changing to Remote H2

By default, WSO2 Identity Server uses the embedded H2 database as the database for storing user management and registry data. The following sections describe how to replace the default H2 databases with Remote H2:

H2 is not recommended in production

The embedded H2 database is NOT recommended in enterprise testing and production environments. It has lower performance, clustering limitations, and can cause file corruption failures. Please use an industry-standard RDBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MS SQL instead.

You can use the embedded H2 database in development environments and as the local registry in a registry mount.

Setting up datasource configurations

A datasource is used to establish the connection to a database. By default, WSO2_IDENTITY_DB and WSO2_SHARED_DB datasources are used to connect to the default  H2 database.

  • WSO2_SHARED_DB - The database which stores registry and user management data.
  • WSO2_IDENTITY_DB - The database specific for the identity server which stores identity related data

After setting up the H2 database, You can point the WSO2_IDENTITY_DB or WSO2_SHARED_DB, or both to that H2 database by following the instructions given below.

Changing the default datasource

  1. Minimum Configurations for changing default datasource to H2.

Configurations can be done by editing the default configurations in <IS-HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml. Following are the basic configurations and their descriptions.

Element Description
username and password The name and password of the database user.
driver The jdbc driver of the database.
url The url of the database.

A Sample configuration is given below.

  1. WSO2_IDENTITY_DB

    1. deployment.toml Configurations

       [database.identity_db]
 url = "jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/~/registryDB;create=true"
 username = "regadmin"
 password = "regadmin"
 driver = "org.h2.Driver"
 [database.identity_db.pool_options]
 maxActive = "80"
 maxWait = "60000"
 minIdle = "5"
 testOnBorrow = true
 validationQuery="SELECT 1"
 validationInterval="30000"
 defaultAutoCommit=false

    2. Executing database scripts.

      Navigate to <IS-HOME>/dbscripts. Execute the scripts in the following files, against the database created.

      • <IS-HOME>/dbscripts/identity/h2.sql
      • <IS-HOME>/dbscripts/identity/uma/h2.sql
      • <IS-HOME>/dbscripts/consent/h2.sql

  2. WSO2_SHARED_DB

    1. deployment.toml Configurations

       [database.shared_db]
 url = "jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/~/registryDB;create=true"
 username = "regadmin"
 password = "regadmin"
 driver = "org.h2.Driver"
 [database.identity_db.pool_options]
 maxActive = "80"
 maxWait = "60000"
 minIdle = "5"
 testOnBorrow = true
 validationQuery="SELECT 1"
 validationInterval="30000"
 defaultAutoCommit=false

    2. Executing database scripts.

      Navigate to <IS-HOME>/dbscripts. Execute the scripts in the following file, against the database created.

      • <IS-HOME>/dbscripts/h2.sql

  3. Download the H2 JDBC driver for the version, you are using and copy it to the <IS_HOME>/repository/components/lib folder

    Note

    In earlier versions WSO2 Identity Server had the option to create databases automatically using the -DSetup option from January 2018 onwards WSO2 Identity Server has deprecated the -DSetup option Note that the proper practice is for the DBA to run the DDL statements manually so that the DBA can examine and optimize any DDL statement (if necessary) based on the DBA best practices that are in place within the organization.

2.Advanced Database Configurations.

Apart from the basic configurations specified above, WSO2 Identity Server supports some advanced database configurations as well.

  • WSO2_IDENTITY_DB deployment.toml Configurations.
[database.identity_db.pool_options]
 maxActive = "80"
 maxWait = "60000"
 minIdle = "5"
 testOnBorrow = true
 validationQuery="SELECT 1"
 validationInterval="30000"
 defaultAutoCommit=false
  • WSO2_SHARED_DB deployment.toml Configurations.
[database.shared_db.pool_options]
 maxActive = "80"
 maxWait = "60000"
 minIdle = "5"
 testOnBorrow = true
 validationQuery="SELECT 1"
 validationInterval="30000"
 defaultAutoCommit=false

The elements in the above configuration are described below:

maxActive The maximum number of active connections that can be allocated at the same time from this pool. Enter any negative value to denote an unlimited number of active connections.
maxWait The maximum number of milliseconds that the pool will wait (when there are no available connections) for a connection to be returned before throwing an exception. You can enter zero or a negative value to wait indefinitely.
minIdle The minimum number of active connections that can remain idle in the pool without extra ones being created, or enter zero to create none.

testOnBorrow

 Indicates whether objects will be validated before being borrowed from the pool. If the object fails to validate, it will be dropped from the pool, and another attempt will be made to borrow another.

defaultAutoCommit

 Indicates whether to commit database changes automatically or not.
validationInterval The indication to avoid excess validation, and only run validation at the most, at this frequency (time in milliseconds). If a connection is due for validation, but has been validated previously within this interval, it will not be validated again.
defaultAutoCommit

This property is not applicable to the Carbon database in WSO2 products because auto committing is usually handled at the code level, i.e., the default auto commit configuration specified for the RDBMS driver will be effective instead of this property element. Typically, auto committing is enabled for RDBMS drivers by default.

When auto committing is enabled, each SQL statement will be committed to the database as an individual transaction, as opposed to committing multiple statements as a single transaction.

Info

For more information on other parameters that can be defined in the <IS_HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml file, see Tomcat JDBC Connection Pool.

Note

"Configuring the connection pool behavior on return" When a database connection is returned to the pool, by default  the product rolls back the pending transactions if defaultAutoCommit =true. However, if required you can disable the latter mentioned default behavior by disabling the ConnectionRollbackOnReturnInterceptor, which is a JDBC-Pool JDBC interceptor, and setting the connection pool behavior on return via the datasource configurations by using the following options.

Configure the connection pool to commit pending transactions on connection return

  1. Navigate to either one of the following locations based on your OS. - On Linux/Mac OS: <IS_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh/ - On Windows: <IS_HOME>\bin\wso2server.bat

  2. Add the following JVM option:

    -Dndatasource.disable.rollbackOnReturn=true \

  3. Navigate to the <IS_HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml file.

  4. Disable the defaultAutoCommit property by defining it as false.

  5. Add the commitOnReturn property and set it to true.

    • WSO2_IDENTITY_DB deployment.toml Configurations.
    [database.identity_db.pool_options]
 defaultAutoCommit="false"
 commitOnReturn="true"
    • WSO2_SHARED_DB deployment.toml Configurations.
    [database.shared_db.pool_options]
 defaultAutoCommit="false"
 commitOnReturn="true"

Configure the connection pool to rollback pending transactions on connection return

  1. Navigate to the <IS_HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml ` file.

  2. Disable the defaultAutoCommit property by defining it as false.

  3. Set the rollbackOnReturn property to the datasources as true.

    • WSO2_IDENTITY_DB deployment.toml Configurations.
    [database.identity_db.pool_options]
 defaultAutoCommit="false"
 rollbackOnReturn="true"
    • WSO2_SHARED_DB deployment.toml Configurations.
    [database.shared_db.pool_options]
 defaultAutoCommit="false"
 rollbackOnReturn="true"

The elements in the above configuration are described below:

Element Description
commitOnReturn If defaultAutoCommit =false, then you can set commitOnReturn =true, so that the pool
can complete the transaction by calling the commit on the connection as it is returned to the pool. However,If the
rollbackOnReturn =true then this attribute is ignored. The default value is false.
rollbackOnReturn If defaultAutoCommit =false, then you can set rollbackOnReturn =true so that the pool can terminate the transaction by calling rollback on the connection as it is returned to the pool. The default value is false.
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