WebSphere Commerce development database
The development environment is initially configured to work with IBM Cloudscape, which is included with WebSphere Commerce Developer. You can configure WebSphere Commerce Developer to use the other databases.
- DB2 Universal Database for Windows, running locally or remotely.
- Oracle Database for Windows, running locally or remotely.
- DB2 Universal Database for iSeries running remotely.
For information on configuring WebSphere Commerce Developer for the above databases see Installing WebSphere Commerce Developer.
Use different database management systems for development and production. In this case, the WebSphere Commerce enterprise bean conversion tool is used to convert the meta-data of the beans from the format of your development database to that of your production database.
The Cloudscape development database in the initial installation of WebSphere Commerce Developer has all of the starter store archives pre-published. You can publish additional stores or reset the database to its bootstrap configuration.
Related concepts
WebSphere Commerce development environment
WebSphere Commerce tools and plug-insRelated tasks
Accessing the development database directly
Resetting the Cloudscape database to contain only bootstrap data
Switching between development database types