Working with Databases

By default, WSO2 products are shipped with an embedded H2 database, which is used for storing user management and registry data.

The embedded H2 databases is only suitable for development and testing.

We recommend that you use an industry-standard RDBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL, etc. when you set up your production environment.  You can change the default database configuration by simply setting up a new physical database and updating the configurations in the product server to connect to that database. The following section explains how to change the default database:

• Setting up the Physical Database