[java] Spring Boot Configure and Use Two DataSources

How can I configure and use two data sources?

For example here is what I have for the first data source:

application.properties

#first db
spring.datasource.url = [url]
spring.datasource.username = [username]
spring.datasource.password = [password]
spring.datasource.driverClassName = oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver

#second db ...

Application class

@SpringBootApplication
public class SampleApplication
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SampleApplication.class, args);
    }
}

How do I modify application.properties to add another data source? How do I autowire it to be used by a different repository?

Here is the Complete solution

#First Datasource (DB1)
db1.datasource.url: url
db1.datasource.username:user
db1.datasource.password:password

#Second Datasource (DB2)
db2.datasource.url:url
db2.datasource.username:user
db2.datasource.password:password

Since we are going to get access two different databases (db1, db2), we need to configure each data source configuration separately like:

public class DB1_DataSource {
@Autowired
private Environment env;
@Bean
@Primary
public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean db1EntityManager() {
    LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean em = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
    em.setDataSource(db1Datasource());
    em.setPersistenceUnitName("db1EntityManager");
    HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
    em.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
    HashMap<string, object=""> properties = new HashMap<>();
    properties.put("hibernate.dialect",
            env.getProperty("hibernate.dialect"));
    properties.put("hibernate.show-sql",
            env.getProperty("jdbc.show-sql"));
    em.setJpaPropertyMap(properties);
    return em;
}

@Primary
@Bean
public DataSource db1Datasource() {

    DriverManagerDataSource dataSource
            = new DriverManagerDataSource();
    dataSource.setDriverClassName(
            env.getProperty("jdbc.driver-class-name"));
    dataSource.setUrl(env.getProperty("db1.datasource.url"));
    dataSource.setUsername(env.getProperty("db1.datasource.username"));
    dataSource.setPassword(env.getProperty("db1.datasource.password"));

    return dataSource;
}

@Primary
@Bean
public PlatformTransactionManager db1TransactionManager() {

    JpaTransactionManager transactionManager
            = new JpaTransactionManager();
    transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(
            db1EntityManager().getObject());
    return transactionManager;
}
}

Second Datasource :

public class DB2_DataSource {

@Autowired
private Environment env;

@Bean
public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean db2EntityManager() {
    LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean em
            = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
    em.setDataSource(db2Datasource());
    em.setPersistenceUnitName("db2EntityManager");
    HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter
            = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
    em.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
    HashMap<string, object=""> properties = new HashMap<>();
    properties.put("hibernate.dialect",
            env.getProperty("hibernate.dialect"));
    properties.put("hibernate.show-sql",
            env.getProperty("jdbc.show-sql"));
    em.setJpaPropertyMap(properties);
    return em;
}

@Bean
public DataSource db2Datasource() {
    DriverManagerDataSource dataSource
            = new DriverManagerDataSource();
    dataSource.setDriverClassName(
            env.getProperty("jdbc.driver-class-name"));
    dataSource.setUrl(env.getProperty("db2.datasource.url"));
    dataSource.setUsername(env.getProperty("db2.datasource.username"));
    dataSource.setPassword(env.getProperty("db2.datasource.password"));

    return dataSource;
}

@Bean
public PlatformTransactionManager db2TransactionManager() {
    JpaTransactionManager transactionManager
            = new JpaTransactionManager();
    transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(
            db2EntityManager().getObject());
    return transactionManager;
}
}

Here you can find the complete Example on my blog : Spring Boot with Multiple DataSource Configuration

@Primary annotation when used against a method like below works good if the two data sources are on the same db location/server.

@Bean(name = "datasource1")
@ConfigurationProperties("database1.datasource")
@Primary
public DataSource dataSource(){
  return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
}

@Bean(name = "datasource2")
@ConfigurationProperties("database2.datasource")
public DataSource dataSource2(){
  return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
}

If the data sources are on different servers its better to use @Component along with @Primary annotation. The following code snippet works well on two different data sources at different locations

database1.datasource.url = jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/db1
database1.datasource.username = root
database1.datasource.password = mysql
database1.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

database2.datasource1.url = jdbc:mysql://192.168.113.51:3306/db2
database2.datasource1.username = root
database2.datasource1.password = mysql
database2.datasource1.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

@Configuration
@Primary
@Component
@ComponentScan("com.db1.bean")
class DBConfiguration1{
    @Bean("db1Ds")
    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix="database1.datasource")
    public DataSource primaryDataSource() {
        return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
    }

}

@Configuration
@Component
@ComponentScan("com.db2.bean")
class DBConfiguration2{
    @Bean("db2Ds")
    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix="database2.datasource1")
    public DataSource primaryDataSource() {
        return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
    }

}

I used mybatis - springboot 2.0 tech stack, solution:

//application.properties - start
    sp.ds1.jdbc-url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydb?useSSL=false
    sp.ds1.username=user
    sp.ds1.password=pwd
    sp.ds1.testWhileIdle=true
    sp.ds1.validationQuery=SELECT 1
    sp.ds1.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver


    sp.ds2.jdbc-url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:4586/mydb?useSSL=false
    sp.ds2.username=user
    sp.ds2.password=pwd
    sp.ds2.testWhileIdle=true
    sp.ds2.validationQuery=SELECT 1
    sp.ds2.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

//application.properties - end

//configuration class

    @Configuration
    @ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.mypkg")
    public class MultipleDBConfig {


        public static final String SQL_SESSION_FACTORY_NAME_1 = "sqlSessionFactory1";
        public static final String SQL_SESSION_FACTORY_NAME_2 = "sqlSessionFactory2";

        public static final String MAPPERS_PACKAGE_NAME_1 = "com.mypg.mymapper1";
        public static final String MAPPERS_PACKAGE_NAME_2 = "com.mypg.mymapper2";


        @Bean(name = "mysqlDb1")
        @Primary
        @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "sp.ds1")
        public DataSource dataSource1() {
            System.out.println("db1 datasource");
            return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
        }

        @Bean(name = "mysqlDb2")
        @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "sp.ds2")
        public DataSource dataSource2() {
            System.out.println("db2 datasource");
            return  DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
        }

        @Bean(name = SQL_SESSION_FACTORY_NAME_1)
        @Primary
        public SqlSessionFactory sqlSessionFactory1(@Qualifier("mysqlDb1") DataSource dataSource1) throws Exception {
            System.out.println("sqlSessionFactory1");
            SqlSessionFactoryBean sqlSessionFactoryBean = new SqlSessionFactoryBean();
            sqlSessionFactoryBean.setTypeHandlersPackage(MAPPERS_PACKAGE_NAME_1);
            sqlSessionFactoryBean.setDataSource(dataSource1);
            SqlSessionFactory sqlSessionFactory = sqlSessionFactoryBean.getObject();
            sqlSessionFactory.getConfiguration().setMapUnderscoreToCamelCase(true);
            sqlSessionFactory.getConfiguration().setJdbcTypeForNull(JdbcType.NULL);
            return sqlSessionFactory;
        }

        @Bean(name = SQL_SESSION_FACTORY_NAME_2)
        public SqlSessionFactory sqlSessionFactory2(@Qualifier("mysqlDb2") DataSource dataSource2) throws Exception {
            System.out.println("sqlSessionFactory2");
            SqlSessionFactoryBean diSqlSessionFactoryBean = new SqlSessionFactoryBean();
            diSqlSessionFactoryBean.setTypeHandlersPackage(MAPPERS_PACKAGE_NAME_2);
            diSqlSessionFactoryBean.setDataSource(dataSource2);
            SqlSessionFactory sqlSessionFactory = diSqlSessionFactoryBean.getObject();
            sqlSessionFactory.getConfiguration().setMapUnderscoreToCamelCase(true);
            sqlSessionFactory.getConfiguration().setJdbcTypeForNull(JdbcType.NULL);
            return sqlSessionFactory;
        }

        @Bean
        @Primary
        public MapperScannerConfigurer mapperScannerConfigurer1() {
            System.out.println("mapperScannerConfigurer1");
            MapperScannerConfigurer configurer = new MapperScannerConfigurer();
            configurer.setBasePackage(MAPPERS_PACKAGE_NAME_1);
            configurer.setSqlSessionFactoryBeanName(SQL_SESSION_FACTORY_NAME_1);
            return configurer;
        }

        @Bean
        public MapperScannerConfigurer mapperScannerConfigurer2() {
            System.out.println("mapperScannerConfigurer2");
            MapperScannerConfigurer configurer = new MapperScannerConfigurer();
            configurer.setBasePackage(MAPPERS_PACKAGE_NAME_2);
            configurer.setSqlSessionFactoryBeanName(SQL_SESSION_FACTORY_NAME_2);
            return configurer;
        }



    }

Note : 1)@Primary -> @primary

2)---."jdbc-url" in properties -> After Spring Boot 2.0 migration: jdbcUrl is required with driverClassName

Update 2018-01-07 with Spring Boot 1.5.8.RELEASE

Most answers do not provide how to use them (as datasource itself and as transaction), only how to config them.

You can see the runnable example and some explanation in https://www.surasint.com/spring-boot-with-multiple-databases-example/

I copied some code here.

First you have to set application.properties like this

#Database
database1.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/testdb
database1.datasource.username=root
database1.datasource.password=root
database1.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

database2.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/testdb2
database2.datasource.username=root
database2.datasource.password=root
database2.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

Then define them as providers (@Bean) like this:

@Bean(name = "datasource1")
@ConfigurationProperties("database1.datasource")
@Primary
public DataSource dataSource(){
    return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
}

@Bean(name = "datasource2")
@ConfigurationProperties("database2.datasource")
public DataSource dataSource2(){
    return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
}

Note that I have @Bean(name="datasource1") and @Bean(name="datasource2"), then you can use it when we need datasource as @Qualifier("datasource1") and @Qualifier("datasource2") , for example

@Qualifier("datasource1")
@Autowired
private DataSource dataSource;

If you do care about transaction, you have to define DataSourceTransactionManager for both of them, like this:

@Bean(name="tm1")
@Autowired
@Primary
DataSourceTransactionManager tm1(@Qualifier ("datasource1") DataSource datasource) {
    DataSourceTransactionManager txm  = new DataSourceTransactionManager(datasource);
    return txm;
}

@Bean(name="tm2")
@Autowired
DataSourceTransactionManager tm2(@Qualifier ("datasource2") DataSource datasource) {
    DataSourceTransactionManager txm  = new DataSourceTransactionManager(datasource);
    return txm;
}

Then you can use it like

@Transactional //this will use the first datasource because it is @primary

or

@Transactional("tm2")

This should be enough. See example and detail in the link above.

# Here '1stDB' is the database name
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/A
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=root
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver


# Here '2ndDB' is the database name
spring.second-datasourcee.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/B
spring.second-datasource.username=root
spring.second-datasource.password=root
spring.second-datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver


    @Bean
    @Primary
    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "spring.datasource")
    public DataSource firstDataSource() {
        return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
    }

    @Bean
    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "spring.second-datasource")
    public DataSource secondDataSource() {
       return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
    }

Refer the official documentation

Creating more than one data source works same as creating the first one. You might want to mark one of them as @Primary if you are using the default auto-configuration for JDBC or JPA (then that one will be picked up by any @Autowired injections).

@Bean
@Primary
@ConfigurationProperties(prefix="datasource.primary")
public DataSource primaryDataSource() {
    return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
}

@Bean
@ConfigurationProperties(prefix="datasource.secondary")
public DataSource secondaryDataSource() {
    return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
}

I also had to setup connection to 2 datasources from Spring Boot application, and it was not easy - the solution mentioned in the Spring Boot documentation didn't work. After a long digging through the internet I made it work and the main idea was taken from this article and bunch of other places.

The following solution is written in Kotlin and works with Spring Boot 2.1.3 and Hibernate Core 5.3.7. Main issue was that it was not enough just to setup different DataSource configs, but it was also necessary to configure EntityManagerFactory and TransactionManager for both databases.

Here is config for the first (Primary) database:

@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories(
    entityManagerFactoryRef = "firstDbEntityManagerFactory",
    transactionManagerRef = "firstDbTransactionManager",
    basePackages = ["org.path.to.firstDb.domain"]
)
@EnableTransactionManagement
class FirstDbConfig {

    @Bean
    @Primary
    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "spring.datasource.firstDb")
    fun firstDbDataSource(): DataSource {
        return DataSourceBuilder.create().build()
    }

    @Primary
    @Bean(name = ["firstDbEntityManagerFactory"])
    fun firstDbEntityManagerFactory(
        builder: EntityManagerFactoryBuilder,
        @Qualifier("firstDbDataSource") dataSource: DataSource
    ): LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean {
        return builder
            .dataSource(dataSource)
            .packages(SomeEntity::class.java)
            .persistenceUnit("firstDb")
            // Following is the optional configuration for naming strategy
            .properties(
                singletonMap(
                    "hibernate.naming.physical-strategy",
                    "org.hibernate.boot.model.naming.PhysicalNamingStrategyStandardImpl"
                )
            )
            .build()
    }

    @Primary
    @Bean(name = ["firstDbTransactionManager"])
    fun firstDbTransactionManager(
        @Qualifier("firstDbEntityManagerFactory") firstDbEntityManagerFactory: EntityManagerFactory
    ): PlatformTransactionManager {
        return JpaTransactionManager(firstDbEntityManagerFactory)
    }
}

And this is config for second database:

@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories(
    entityManagerFactoryRef = "secondDbEntityManagerFactory",
    transactionManagerRef = "secondDbTransactionManager",
    basePackages = ["org.path.to.secondDb.domain"]
)
@EnableTransactionManagement
class SecondDbConfig {

    @Bean
    @ConfigurationProperties("spring.datasource.secondDb")
    fun secondDbDataSource(): DataSource {
        return DataSourceBuilder.create().build()
    }

    @Bean(name = ["secondDbEntityManagerFactory"])
    fun secondDbEntityManagerFactory(
        builder: EntityManagerFactoryBuilder,
        @Qualifier("secondDbDataSource") dataSource: DataSource
    ): LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean {
        return builder
            .dataSource(dataSource)
            .packages(EntityFromSecondDb::class.java)
            .persistenceUnit("secondDb")
            .build()
    }

    @Bean(name = ["secondDbTransactionManager"])
    fun secondDbTransactionManager(
        @Qualifier("secondDbEntityManagerFactory") secondDbEntityManagerFactory: EntityManagerFactory
    ): PlatformTransactionManager {
        return JpaTransactionManager(secondDbEntityManagerFactory)
    }
}

The properties for datasources are like this:

spring.datasource.firstDb.jdbc-url=
spring.datasource.firstDb.username=
spring.datasource.firstDb.password=

spring.datasource.secondDb.jdbc-url=
spring.datasource.secondDb.username=
spring.datasource.secondDb.password=

Issue with properties was that I had to define jdbc-url instead of url because otherwise I had an exception.

p.s. Also you might have different naming schemes in your databases, which was the case for me. Since Hibernate 5 does not support all previous naming schemes, I had to use solution from this answer - maybe it will also help someone as well.

My requirement was slightly different but used two data sources.

I have used two data sources for same JPA entities from same package. One for executing DDL at the server startup to create/update tables and another one is for DML at runtime.

The DDL connection should be closed after DDL statements are executed, to prevent further usage of super user previlleges anywhere in the code.

Properties

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://Host:port
ddl.user=ddluser
ddl.password=ddlpassword
dml.user=dmluser
dml.password=dmlpassword
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver

Data source config classes

//1st Config class for DDL Data source

  public class DatabaseDDLConfig {
        @Bean
        public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean ddlEntityManagerFactoryBean() {
            LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactoryBean = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
            PersistenceProvider persistenceProvider = new 
            org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider();
            entityManagerFactoryBean.setDataSource(ddlDataSource());
            entityManagerFactoryBean.setPackagesToScan(new String[] { 
            "com.test.two.data.sources"});
            HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new 
            HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
            entityManagerFactoryBean.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
            HashMap<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<>();
            properties.put("hibernate.dialect", 
            "org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect");
            properties.put("hibernate.physical_naming_strategy", 
            "org.springframework.boot.orm.jpa.hibernate.
            SpringPhysicalNamingStrategy");
            properties.put("hibernate.implicit_naming_strategy", 
            "org.springframework.boot.orm.jpa.hibernate.
            SpringImplicitNamingStrategy");
            properties.put("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "update");
            entityManagerFactoryBean.setJpaPropertyMap(properties);
            entityManagerFactoryBean.setPersistenceUnitName("ddl.config");
            entityManagerFactoryBean.setPersistenceProvider(persistenceProvider);
            return entityManagerFactoryBean;
        }


    @Bean
    public DataSource ddlDataSource() {
        DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
        dataSource.setDriverClassName(env.getProperty("spring.datasource.driver-class-name"));
        dataSource.setUrl(env.getProperty("spring.datasource.url"));
        dataSource.setUsername(env.getProperty("ddl.user");
        dataSource.setPassword(env.getProperty("ddl.password"));
        return dataSource;
    }

    @Bean
    public PlatformTransactionManager ddlTransactionManager() {
        JpaTransactionManager transactionManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
        transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(ddlEntityManagerFactoryBean().getObject());
        return transactionManager;
    }
}

//2nd Config class for DML Data source

public class DatabaseDMLConfig {

    @Bean
    @Primary
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean dmlEntityManagerFactoryBean() {
        LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactoryBean = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
        PersistenceProvider persistenceProvider = new org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider();
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setDataSource(dmlDataSource());
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setPackagesToScan(new String[] { "com.test.two.data.sources" });
        JpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setJpaProperties(defineJpaProperties());
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setPersistenceUnitName("dml.config");
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setPersistenceProvider(persistenceProvider);
        return entityManagerFactoryBean;
    }

    @Bean
    @Primary
    public DataSource dmlDataSource() {
        DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
        dataSource.setDriverClassName(env.getProperty("spring.datasource.driver-class-name"));
        dataSource.setUrl(envt.getProperty("spring.datasource.url"));
        dataSource.setUsername("dml.user");
        dataSource.setPassword("dml.password");
        return dataSource;
    }

    @Bean
    @Primary
    public PlatformTransactionManager dmlTransactionManager() {
        JpaTransactionManager transactionManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
        transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(dmlEntityManagerFactoryBean().getObject());
        return transactionManager;
    }


  }

//Usage of DDL data sources in code.

public class DDLServiceAtStartup {

//Import persistence unit ddl.config for ddl purpose.

@PersistenceUnit(unitName = "ddl.config")
private EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory;

public void executeDDLQueries() throws ContentServiceSystemError {
    try {
        EntityManager entityManager = entityManagerFactory.createEntityManager();
        entityManager.getTransaction().begin();
        entityManager.createNativeQuery("query to create/update table").executeUpdate();
        entityManager.flush();
        entityManager.getTransaction().commit();
        entityManager.close();

        //Close the ddl data source to avoid from further use in code.
        entityManagerFactory.close();
    } catch(Exception ex) {}
}

//Usage of DML data source in code.

public class DDLServiceAtStartup {
  @PersistenceUnit(unitName = "dml.config")
  private EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory;

  public void createRecord(User user) {
     userDao.save(user);
  }
}