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JIRA requires a relational database to store its issue data. JIRA supports most popular relational database servers, so we suggest using the one that you are most comfortable with administering. JIRA
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ships pre-configured with the HSQLDB database, which is suitable for evaluation purposes only
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, since HSQLDB is prone to database corruption.
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Hence, if you intend to use JIRA in a production environment, we strongly recommend that you connect JIRA Standalone
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to an enterprise database (supported by Atlassian).
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