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Victor Romero commented on FINERACT-982:
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[~awasum] I think that we should warn that there is no updated information
about Drizzle driver (last date I could find is from 2016, this is the github
project, which seems "dead" [https://github.com/krummas/DrizzleJDBC] ). I think
it should not cause any issue, becase the drivers and url connections are
different betweem Drizzle and MariaDB. We have selected a MariaDB version,
which is compatible with MySQL 5.7.
[~francisguchie] we have been looking for alternatives to Drizzle (which I
think is prefered for the BSD license) until now only MySQL J Connector,
MariaDB Connector and AWS-MySQL Connector have been good candidates. It is
important to look also for the compatibility required by Flyway. We have tried
J-Asyc (Apache license), but the use cases are different.
I have the following thinking/opinion about having an oudated and "dead"
artifact: we have to highlight and warn to tech and non tech that the JDBC
connector is handling all the data from Fineract to the Database and if they go
for a using it (Drizzle) is riskier for the data integrity and maintenance (for
sure they are having issues and doing themselve a quick fix replacing with
MySQL or MariaDB drivers).
> Completely ditch use of Drizzle JDBC Driver after all
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>
> Key: FINERACT-982
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-982
> Project: Apache Fineract
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Michael Vorburger
> Priority: Blocker
> Labels: scalability
> Fix For: 1.6.0
>
>
> Fineract's use of the un-maintained Drizzle JDBC driver continues to cause
> confusion and pains like FINERACT-980, and note e.g. the proposed removal of
> the alternative MySQL JDBC driver in
> [https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/887.]
> Some of the background to this is recorded e.g. in FINCN-26, FINERACT-761 and
> LEGAL-462.
> LEGAL-462 has clarified that the Fineract ZIP distribution must include
> Drizzle and cannot distribute the MariaDB or MySQL JDBC clients. We CAN, and
> currently (given the confusion in FINERACT-980 apparently do?!) use it for
> tests.
> What if to reduce variability we just removed that old Drizzle JDBC driver
> after all? We could run our tests using (preferably) the very well maintained
> MariaDB JDBC driver client (the actual DB server is a totally separate
> discussion, see FINERACT-896). We would (have to) distribute the ZIP for
> download without a JDBC driver, and just some documentation inviting users to
> DL and add one.
> But the exact situation about distributing in a Docker container image isn't
> clear, to me...
> FYI [~awasum], [~ptuomola], [~xurror]
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