[jira] Updated: (DERBY-393) Allow multiple JVMs to have read-only access to the same directory-based database

["Mike Matrigali (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Mike Matrigali updated DERBY-393:
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While these hacks may allow the access to procede the results are not going to be consistent and may cause corruption.

Here are some of the problems:

1) When a database is opened in write mode, not all of the data is actually on disk.
    Some of the dirty data is in memory (in the database cache) only accessible to the jvm that has opened the database for write.  So another db opening for write if allowed would see inconsistent data.

2) a second db opening in read only mode still has to boot.  This boot process has to read the log file and may need to write stuff into the log.  This can cause corruption when it conflicts with the write db.  

> Allow multiple JVMs to have read-only access to the same directory-based database
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>
>                 Key: DERBY-393
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-393
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Store
>            Reporter: Trejkaz
>         Attachments: readonly.patch
>
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> For an application I'm building, we needed to permit multiple JVMs to access the same database.
> We couldn't easily use a network server configuration, as it would be difficult to figure out who to connect to since either user might want to view the database while the other database is offline.
> We couldn't just dump all the data in a JAR file, as our databases often end up being several gigabytes in size.
> So what we really need is a version of the directory store which is treated as if it were read-only.

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