Re: Failover Datasource?

Yes, Oracle's JDBC drivers support insanely long JDBC URLs which allow
specifying a whole cluster of database servers, what the failover
policies are, including various timeouts, load balance weights and more.
A single JDBC URL for Oracle can be a thousand characters or more. I
suspect the other database vendors (I specifically know about IBM DB2
and MySQL) have followed Oracle's lead here.

This page has a simple example:
http://programmersjournal.blogspot.com/2008/08/jdbc-connection-string-for-oracle-rac.html

On 06/16/2011 10:02 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 06/16/11 6:55 PM, Bruce Adams wrote:
>> In principal, I agree; in practice, that's not the way it's been done
>> in the Java application server world.
>>
>> I have two readily available Java database connection pool
>> implementations available: the one bundled with Apache Tomcat and
>> Hibernate's c3p0. Neither of these directly support failover. They
>> each expect the lower level JDBC driver to deal with failover. (This
>> is true of BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere as well, at least as of a
>> few years ago when I last used them intensely.)
>>
>> What I'm looking for is very standard stuff in the Java application
>> server world. The JDBC driver handles failover and/or load balancing
>> to multiple backend database servers.
>
> it just seems to me that the individual client drivers shouldn't be
> what is tracking the state of the server cluster.    I can't imagine
> the driver layer could do more than 'try connecting to server 1, if
> that fails, try server 2'...  if server 1 is dead and not responding,
> this is going to be painfully slow and result in minute long TCP
> connection timeouts on each connect.
>
> Do oracle jdbc drivers support this multiple-server notation, same as
> shown here earlier for mysql?
>