It's the same for us: we use H2 in production as well, as a client-side 
database that caches part of the server-side database for offline use. If 
there's ever an inquiry into the cause of a particularly painful data loss 
of offline recorded data, using a beta version of a database engine is 
enough to conclude the inquiry. We are currently looking at the following 
timeline:

- 2011: choice of database engine: HSQLDB is inactive since 2010, H2 is 
actively developed: we chose H2
- 2014: last stable release of H2
- 2015: HSQLDB development restarted; 2.x release series
- 2016: still no stable H2 release

We're currently using H2 1.3.168: Upgrading to 1.3.176 has resulted in 
several cases of database file corruption, so we never pushed that to 
production. As a result, we're currently stuck with 1.3.168.

Op maandag 6 juni 2016 10:26:57 UTC+2 schreef Silvio:
>
> Thank you for the info. I am still very uncomfortable using something that 
> is marked as beta in production. But this beta status has lasted for a long 
> time already and it is unclear when an actual release version will be 
> available. And in the meantime I have seen multiple remarks about things 
> that have been improved in 1.4 wrt. the PageStore.
>
> Personally I would have preferred a release status for 1.4 as soon as the 
> software was reliable enough to warrant use in production, regardless of a 
> possible format change. Why not call that 1.5, 1.6 aso. to mark such 
> backward incompatibility?
>
>
> On Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 9:15:19 AM UTC+2, Noel Grandin wrote:
>>
>> We use 1.4 in production with both PageStore and MVStore, both are pretty 
>> stable.
>>
>> We currently find PageStore to be slightly more stable when running on 
>> some systems in the field where power outages are extremely common (i.e. 
>> more than once per day), but even there we are thinking of moving to 
>> MVStore with the latest 1.4 builds.
>>
>> The only downside with MVStore is that there might be a binary format 
>> change at some point in the future, which will need need a full dump and 
>> restore to upgrade across.
>> ​
>>
>

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