Working with two bases at the same time

Quite often there are situations when you need to work with two bases at the same time. For example, you read data from one database, process it and write it to another.

Or even more common. Your application has one local database to work with, and can also read data from various remote sources that support the SQL data query format. For example Excel.

For these remote data sources, it can be very useful to customize your Hibernate mapping so that the business logic of the application can be simpler and work only with Java objects.

The easiest way to do this is to have multiple configuration files. For example, like this:

hibernate_oracle.cfg.xml 
<hibernate-configuration>
   <session-factory>
      <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect</property>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</property>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:xe</property>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.username">system</property>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.password">secret<property>
 
      <mapping resource="com/codegym/hibernate/multipledatabase/employee.hbm.xml"/>
   </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
hibernate_mysql.cfg.xml 
<hibernate-configuration>
   <session-factory>
      <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/employee</property>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.password">secret</property>
 
      <mapping resource="com/codegym/hibernate/multipledatabase/employee.hbm.xml"/>
   </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
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Well, all the Hibernate initialization code is actually just duplicated:

Configuration oracleCfg = new Configuration();
oracleCfg.configure("/com/codegym/hibernate/multipledatabase/hibernate_oracle.cfg.xml");
SessionFactory oracleSessionFactory = oracleCfg.buildSessionFactory();
Session oracleSession = oracleSessionFactory.openSession();

Configuration mysqlCfg = new Configuration();
mysqlCfg.configure("/com/codegym/hibernate/multipledatabase/hibernate_mysql.cfg.xml");
SessionFactory mySqlSessionFactory = mysqlCfg.buildSessionFactory();
Session mysqlSession = mySqlSessionFactory.openSession();

Employee emp = oracleSession.get(Employee.class, "E0087");
System.out.println("Employee retrived from Oracle Database");

Transaction tx = mysqlSession.beginTransaction();
mysqlSession.save(emp);
tx.commit();
System.out.println("Employee inserted in MySQL Database");

base in memory

There are DBMS, which are databases that are completely in memory. Such DBMSs are often distributed simply as libraries and are easy to include in a typical application. Such DBMS, for example, are H2 or Hsqldb.

You can add them to your project in the same way as any other libraries - using a dependency in Maven:

hsqldb 
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
    <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.1</version>
	<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

And immediately an example of the second base:

H2 database 
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
    <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.214</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

You can configure work with them in the same way as with regular databases. But let's give a couple of examples for convenience:

hsqldb 
<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:hsqldb:mem:test</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.username">sa</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.password"></property>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect</property>
        <property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property>
        <property name="hibernate.format_sql">true</property>
        <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create-drop</property>
        <property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</property>
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

The key difference between the two configurations is the connection.url:

H2 database 
<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.h2.Driver</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:h2:mem:test</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.password"></property>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect</property>
        <property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property>
        <property name="hibernate.format_sql">true</property>
	    <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create-drop</property>
        <property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</property>
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>