Improve documentation showing how to use two different databases

[waffel]

It would be nice to get a working example, how to use and configure two databases in spring boot.

The documentation says, that it is only required to create a datasource configuration with two different datasources.

But this does not work complete. The example application can show how to:

• define and use different data-${platform}.sql files to add data to two different test databases
• use the datasources in repositories where we define simple an interface which extends from the CrudRepository interface
• create a test case where data will be written into one datasource and read from another and then mix the result into a controller to deliver both data (via REST for example) to the client

I have not found any "complete" example for this. But it is mentioned in the documentation, that this is easy and supported by spring-boot .. so it would be nice to have such example.

[jamesbehrens1]

It would be interesting to see what is recommended for multiple databases. I have a multi-tenant solution that I have cobbled together and don't specifically trust. I know that I have memory leaks and presume that it is because I have deviated from the spring boot way. I have six jdbc bean pools configured and determine which one to inject into the service based on the restful call. This solution leaves me tightly bound to JTDS for a JDBC driver and, as mentioned above, I am trying to sort out memory leaks.

[eepstein]

Example is here https://github.com/eepstein/multids-demo

[snicoll]

There is also https://github.com/snicoll-demos/demo-multi-entity-managers that is meant to demonstrate the JPA/Spring Data use case with two datasources and Spring Boot.

[snicoll]

The documentation has also been updated as well.

[waffel]

Can we reopen this issue? The example from https://github.com/snicoll-demos/demo-multi-entity-managers is really helpful for spring-boot 1.x

But the documentation for spring-boot 2.x does not tell us about how to separate (or setup) domain objects/packages to specific datasource (is we have more than one).

It also unclear how to setup special hibernate properties (for example) for each datasource and how a test can look (with a database auto creation and sql import like the "import.sql" feature worked for 1.x).

The mentioned example https://github.com/eepstein/multids-demo does no longer exists.

I would like to help to create a spring-boot 2.x example if somebody can help me to figure out how to do this. So I can start with a example repo (which I have already on my local) where at the end the tests are failing because of some missing peaces.

Thanks in advance