Embedded Database and End of Life query on JIRA Self Hosted Server

[Roy Wyatt]

We have a licensed JIRA and Bitbucket server we signed up with in August last year. I am the main support contact for JIRA within the company. I have been receiving 2 warnings recently. Embedded database issue and End of life.

 The embedded database issue we cannot do anything about as our SQL License is only for 2008 R2 and JIRA Server only supports SQL Server 2012 and above. My 2 questions are: 

• Is it ok to continue with the embedded database? Or should we look at an alternative like MYSQL maybe for now, as our current version of SQL is not one of JIRA’s supported platforms
• The end of life error we keep getting, is this something to be concerned about, if so, please advise what I should do

[Mirek]

If you run a production instance you should not use an embedded database since it is not so effective. MySQL should be fine. Later you can probably migrate if you need to. As for End of Life it means that even you have a valid license and maintenance you would not get support in case of problem with your instance (excluding problems with upgrade to a newer version that is not end of life). Instance will however work as it is now. Not need to worry that suddenly it will stop working.

[Roy Wyatt]

Hi Mirek, thanks so much for the feedback, I am looking at the MYSQL option for now and will look at installing a later version of JIRA as well on our server. Thanks

[Shannon S]

Hi Roy,

Both issues you will want to address as soon as you can.

The embedded database is only meant for testing instances, and if something were to go wrong with it, it's not easily recoverable. I would recommend migrating to something like MySql or PostgreSQL.

• JIRA How to migrate from HSQL database to an external database

For the End of Life, it means that your version is no longer supported. Have a look here:

• Atlassian Support End of Life Policy

You will want to upgrade to a supported version. Unsupported version means that you will no longer receive support or updates on your version, and you could miss out on important bug and security fixes.

See this:

• Upgrading Jira Applications

Let us know if you have any trouble!

Regards,

Shannon

[Roy Wyatt]

Hi Shannon thanks for the feedback, much appreciated