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Mars Hall updated PIO-96:
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    Description: 
When getting started with PredictionIO, it's no problem to spin up an engine 
and see it work. Problems emerge when a developer tries running multiple 
engines with different storage configs on the same underlying database, such as:

* a Classifier with *Postgres* meta, event, & model storage, and
* the Universal Recommender with *Elasticsearch* meta plus *Postgres* event & 
model storage.

The database will become corrupt because the meta tables are stored in 
different databases, but the dynamically created event & model tables may 
mistakenly share the same name, like {{pio_event_1}}.

We are directing folks to avoid this problem with the Heroku buildpack by 
[isolating each engine's 
database|https://github.com/heroku/predictionio-buildpack/blob/master/CUSTOM.md#provision-the-database]
 and [optionally running an eventserver per 
engine|https://github.com/heroku/predictionio-buildpack/blob/master/CUSTOM.md#user-content-eventserver].
 It's still a problem with local development, though.

It would be great if PredictionIO's management of the database schema's would 
inherently avoid such conflicts, like by using random/UUIDs for dynamically 
created table names, so that they will never conflict.

  was:
When getting started with PredictionIO, it's no problem to spin up an engine 
and see it work. Problems emerge when a developer tries running multiple 
engines with different storage configs on the same underlying database, such as:

* a Classifier with *Postgres* meta, event, & model storage, and
* the Universal Recommender with *Elasticsearch* meta plus *Postgres* event & 
model storage.

The database will become corrupt because the meta tables are stored in 
different databases, but the dynamically created event & storage tables may 
mistakenly share the same name, like {{pio_event_1}}.

We are directing folks to avoid this problem with the Heroku buildpack by 
[isolating each engine's 
database|https://github.com/heroku/predictionio-buildpack/blob/master/CUSTOM.md#provision-the-database]
 and [optionally running an eventserver per 
engine|https://github.com/heroku/predictionio-buildpack/blob/master/CUSTOM.md#user-content-eventserver].
 It's still a problem with local development, though.

It would be great if PredictionIO's management of the database schema's would 
inherently avoid such conflicts, like by using random/UUIDs for dynamically 
created table names, so that they will never conflict.


> Storage corrupted by sharing databases between engines with different storage 
> configs
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>
>                 Key: PIO-96
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIO-96
>             Project: PredictionIO
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 0.11.0-incubating
>            Reporter: Mars Hall
>
> When getting started with PredictionIO, it's no problem to spin up an engine 
> and see it work. Problems emerge when a developer tries running multiple 
> engines with different storage configs on the same underlying database, such 
> as:
> * a Classifier with *Postgres* meta, event, & model storage, and
> * the Universal Recommender with *Elasticsearch* meta plus *Postgres* event & 
> model storage.
> The database will become corrupt because the meta tables are stored in 
> different databases, but the dynamically created event & model tables may 
> mistakenly share the same name, like {{pio_event_1}}.
> We are directing folks to avoid this problem with the Heroku buildpack by 
> [isolating each engine's 
> database|https://github.com/heroku/predictionio-buildpack/blob/master/CUSTOM.md#provision-the-database]
>  and [optionally running an eventserver per 
> engine|https://github.com/heroku/predictionio-buildpack/blob/master/CUSTOM.md#user-content-eventserver].
>  It's still a problem with local development, though.
> It would be great if PredictionIO's management of the database schema's would 
> inherently avoid such conflicts, like by using random/UUIDs for dynamically 
> created table names, so that they will never conflict.



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