Oracle compatibility with JIRA 7.4 ?

[John Campos]

Can Jira Software 7.4 work with Oracle 11.2.0.4.0 or do I need to upgrad to 12c?  I guess I could always stand up PostgreSQL.

[Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority · Accepted solution]

Only 12c is supported per https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver074/supported-platforms-881683157.html

Even if it works on 11, I would not risk it.

Also, PostgreSQL tends to have a lot more burn in than any other DB  due to it's broad internal use at Atlassian. I recommend it to most of my clients, as long as they have staff who can support it (or they're equaly not qualified to support any of the supported DBs).

[John Campos]

Thank you for your advise. 

Until we upgrade to Oracle 12c I will stand up an instance of PostgreSQL to support Jira.  Would you recommend installing PostgreSQL on a seperate VM then Jira Software?

[Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority]

Depends on the scale of the VM? I would tend to recommend yes as long as you can handle the networking side of it without much trouble.