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Database Setup and Configuration

Ory Hydra is built cloud native and implements 12factor principles. The Docker Image is 5 MB light and versioned with verbose upgrade instructions and detailed changelogs. Auto-scaling, migrations, health checks, it all works with zero additional work required. It's possible to run Ory Hydra on any platform, including but not limited to OSX, Linux, Windows, ARM, FreeBSD and more.

Ory Hydra has two operational modes:

  • In-memory: This mode doesn't work with more than one instance ("cluster") and any state is lost after restarting the instance. Ory Hydra uses SQLite with in-memory mode to achieve this.
  • SQL: This mode works with more than one instance and state isn't lost after restarts.

No further dependencies are required for a production-ready instance.

Database Configuration​

For more information on configuring

The SQL adapter supports PostgreSQL 9.6+, MySQL 5.7+ and SQLite. Please note that older MySQL versions have issues with Ory Hydra's database schema. For more information go here.

If you do run the SQL adapter, you must first create the database schema. The hydra serve command doesn't do this automatically, instead you must run hydra migrate sql to create the schemas. The hydra migrate sql command also runs database migrations in case of an upgrade. Please follow the upgrade instructions to see when you need to run this command. Always create a backup before running hydra migrate sql!

Running SQL migrations in Docker is very easy, check out the docker-compose example to see how we did it!

Configuration​

For more information on configuring the DSN (Data-Source-Name), head over to Deployment Fundamentals and Requirements.