HornetQ Persistence Concepts
Internal
Overview
This article provides a high level overview of the HornetQ persistence concepts. It will describe what kind of data is persisted, as well as where and when. It will also discuss paging, which is a protection mechanism against running out of memory.
Disk only.
HornetQ does not support database-based persistence. For reasons that went into this decision see https://developer.jboss.org/thread/153581. More details in "Messaging persistence in EAP 6.x" https://access.redhat.com/solutions/226743.
There is No Database
What Does HornetQ Persist?
Persistent Messages
All persistent messages must be stored on persistent storage, as mandated by the JMS specification. This is necessary to protect against messaging system failure: a persistent message can be presumably recovered from the persistent storage and re-sent.
Bindings
JMS
Large Messages
Non Persistent Messages
Journal
When a node is started for the first time it persists a unique identifier into its journal directory. This ID is needed for proper formation of clusters.