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Other databases supported by Hibernate may work, but it is likely that you will need to edit the SQL generated for creation of the schema. A list of databases supported by hibernate can be found at httphttps://community.jboss.org/wiki/SupportedDatabasesgithub.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/main/dialects.adoc.
Each database is equal as far as Grouper is concerned, with no functionality tied to, or excluded from, any specific database. You choice will be based on factors such as:
- Which database you are most experienced in/familiar with?
- Does your institution have a preference?
- Do you have existing maintenance/backup procedures in place for any of the databases?
- Do you require high availability? Different databases have different ways of achieving this
- If you are installing a database from scratch, and have no existing preference, then do you prefer open source (MySQL and Postgres) or commercial (Oracle and SQL Server)?
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