R2DBC support

[karim789]

Hi,

The client only support JDBC connections, and now R2DBC would be great.

Regards

[morgiyan]

@karim789 Hi, we can definitely look into this suggestion. Is there some specific project/use-case that you need this support in SODA for, or is it more of a general request?

Thank you,
Max.

[karim789]

We planned to use soda in the long term, but we had to improve performances first, and went for reactor, then realized that r2dbc was required if you want to have transactions.

Now the time of using soda is coming but, it doesn't supports r2dbc.

We will use oracle json_document directly for now and do manual queries with R2DBC API, until we can integrate soda more properly.

[morgiyan]

Hi, thank you for the reply.

SODA performance, and in particular SODA Java, is highly optimized. So you should be getting very high throughput and low latency with it, assuming statement caching is turned on on the JDBC connection, and SODA metadata caching is turned on. To turn on metadata caching:

Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("oracle.soda.sharedMetadataCache", "true");
OracleRDBMSClient cl = new OracleRDBMSClient(props);

There are some other gotchas we've seen other users encounter, that can degrade performance (it's a matter of using the API correctly).

We'll evaluate whether we can add R2DBC support (note that R2DBC is pre-production right now), but also if you'd like to discuss whether the current SODA (just based on JDBC) is going to meet your desired performance needs (I would be very surprised if it did not), please feel free to email me at:

maxim dot orgiyan at oracle dot com

(remove space, replace "dot" with "." and "at" with "@")

Thank you!

[karim789]

Sorry, I meant we used Reactor to maximise our CPU usage, and this was not related to soda or a database, we have no performances issue with them.

Then later when we added database support, and JDBC isn't working with @transactional and Reactor, so we had to use R2DBC.

And now that we want to use soda, it's not compatible with R2DBC yet.

Thanks for your answer.
We have another non production project that uses soda. So far we don't have issues, but thanks for the email support if necessary.