Detailed Guide to Implementing Multi-Database SQL Automatic Adaptation

1. Introduction: Industry pain points of multi-database adaptation

In today's enterprise IT environment, database heterogeneity has become the norm. According to the latest DB-Engines survey, more than 78% of enterprises use more than two database systems at the same time. This diversity presents significant development challenges:

Differences in dialects: There is a 20%-30% difference in SQL syntax of each database
Function incompatible: The function name and parameter form of the same function are different
Different paging mechanisms: LIMIT/OFFSET, ROWNUM, FETCH, etc. are implemented very differently
Type system deviation: The storage method and accuracy requirements of similar data are different

Typical cases:

A financial institution needs to rewrite 3000+ SQL statements from Oracle to Kingbase
SaaS products must support both MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle on-site
Use MySQL to develop and test, and use PostgreSQL to produce

2. Technology selection and architecture design

1. Solution comparison matrix

plan	Development efficiency	Execution Performance	Maintenance cost	Learning curve
Multiple SQL maintenance	❌	✅	❌	✅
ORM total abstraction	✅	❌	✅	❌
JDBC direct splicing	❌	✅	❌	✅
SQL parsing conversion	✅	✅	✅	➖

2. Final Technology Stack

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Application │
└───────────────┬─────────────────┬───────────────┘
│ │
┌─────────────────▼───┐ ┌────────▼─────────────────┐
│ Calcite Parser │ │ MyBatis │
│ (MySQL dialect pattern) │ │ (Execute converted SQL) │
└──────────┬──────────┘ └────────┬─────────────────┘
│ │
┌──────────▼──────────────────────▼──────────┐
│ SQL Dialect Adapter │
│ (Function mapping/type conversion/pagination rewrite)
└──────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────┘
│ │
┌──────────▼──┐ ┌──────────▼────────┐
│ MySQL │ │ PostgreSQL │
└─────────────┘ └──────────────────┘

3. Complete implementation of code analysis

1. Core conversion engine implementation

/**
  * SQL dialect conversion core class
  * Support MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle/Kingbase
  */
public class DialectConverter {
    private static final Map&lt;DatabaseType, SqlDialect&gt; DIALECTS = (
        , new MysqlSqlDialect(),
        , new PostgresqlSqlDialect(),
        , new OracleSqlDialect(),
        , new KingbaseSqlDialect()
    );

    public String convert(String originalSql, DatabaseType targetType) {
        // 1. Syntax analysis        SqlNode sqlNode = parseWithMysqlDialect(originalSql);
        
        // 2. Dialect conversion        SqlNode rewritten = (new SqlRewriter(targetType));
        
        // 3. SQL generation        return ((targetType))
                      .withLiteralQuoteStyle(QUOTE_STYLE)
                      .getSql();
    }

    private SqlNode parseWithMysqlDialect(String sql) {
         config = ()
            .withLex(Lex.MYSQL_ANSI)
            .withConformance(SqlConformanceEnum.MYSQL_5);
        
        try {
            return (sql, config).parseStmt();
        } catch (SqlParseException e) {
            throw new SqlSyntaxException("SQL syntax error", e);
        }
    }
}

2. Depth function conversion implementation

/**
  * Function converter (processing 300+ commonly used functions)
  */
public class FunctionConverter extends SqlBasicVisitor&lt;SqlNode&gt; {
    private static final Map&lt;DatabaseType, Map&lt;String, FunctionHandler&gt;&gt; REGISTRY = 
        new ConcurrentHashMap&lt;&gt;();
    
    static {
        // MySQL → PostgreSQL function mapping        Map&lt;String, FunctionHandler&gt; pgMappings = new HashMap&lt;&gt;();
        ("date_format", (call, dialect) -&gt; 
            new SqlBasicCall(
                new SqlFunction("TO_CHAR", ...),
                new SqlNode[] {
                    (0),
                    ("YYYY-MM-DD", ())
                },
                ()
            ));
        (, pgMappings);
        
        // MySQL → Oracle function mapping        Map&lt;String, FunctionHandler&gt; oracleMappings = new HashMap&lt;&gt;();
        ("ifnull", (call, dialect) -&gt;
            new SqlBasicCall(
                new SqlFunction("NVL", ...),
                (),
                ()
            ));
        (, oracleMappings);
    }
    
    @Override
    public SqlNode visit(SqlCall call) {
        if (() instanceof SqlFunction) {
            String funcName = ().getName();
            FunctionHandler handler = (targetType).get(funcName);
            if (handler != null) {
                return (call, targetDialect);
            }
        }
        return (call);
    }
    
    @FunctionalInterface
    interface FunctionHandler {
        SqlNode handle(SqlCall call, SqlDialect dialect);
    }
}

3. MyBatis actuator integration

@Mapper
public interface DynamicMapper {
    /**
      * Execute dynamic SQL
      * @param sql converted SQL statement
      * @param resultType Return type
      */
    @Select("${sql}")
    @Options(statementType = )
    &lt;T&gt; List&lt;T&gt; executeDynamicSql(
        @Param("sql") String sql, 
        @ResultType Class&lt;T&gt; resultType);
}

@Service
public class SqlExecutor {
    @Autowired
    private DynamicMapper dynamicMapper;
    
    @Autowired
    private DialectConverter dialectConverter;
    
    public &lt;T&gt; List&lt;T&gt; query(String mysqlSql, Class&lt;T&gt; resultType) {
        DatabaseType currentDb = ();
        String targetSql = (mysqlSql, currentDb);
        
        try {
            return (targetSql, resultType);
        } catch (PersistenceException e) {
            throw new SqlExecutionException("SQL execution failed: " + targetSql, e);
        }
    }
}

4. Multi-database support details

1. Pagination processing comparison

database	Original syntax	Converted syntax
MySQL	LIMIT 10	LIMIT 10
PostgreSQL	LIMIT 10	LIMIT 10
Oracle	LIMIT 10	WHERE ROWNUM <= 10
Kingbase	LIMIT 10 OFFSET	OFFSET 20 ROWS FETCH NEXT 10

Oracle Pagination Conversion Core Code:

public SqlNode visit(SqlSelect select) {
    if (targetDialect instanceof OracleSqlDialect) {
        SqlNode fetch = ();
        if (fetch != null) {
            // Build ROWNUM conditions            SqlCall rownumCondition = new SqlBasicCall(
                SqlStdOperatorTable.LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL,
                new SqlNode[] {
                    ,
                    fetch
                },
                );
            
            // Merge the original WHERE conditions            SqlNode where = ();
            SqlNode newWhere = where != null 
                ? (, where, rownumCondition)
                : rownumCondition;
                
            return (newWhere);
        }
    }
    return (select);
}

2. Type system map table

MySQL Type	PostgreSQL correspondence	Oracle corresponding	Kingbase corresponding
TINYINT	SMALLINT	NUMBER(3)	SMALLINT
DATETIME	TIMESTAMP	DATE	TIMESTAMP
TEXT	TEXT	CLOB	TEXT
DOUBLE	DOUBLE PRECISION	BINARY_DOUBLE	FLOAT8

Type conversion processor:

public class TypeConverter extends SqlBasicVisitor<SqlNode> {
    private static final Map<DatabaseType, Map<String, String>> TYPE_MAPPING = (
        , (
            "datetime", "timestamp",
            "tinyint", "smallint"
        ),
        , (
            "datetime", "date",
            "text", "clob"
        )
    );
    
    @Override
    public SqlNode visit(SqlDataTypeSpec type) {
        String typeName = ().getSimple().toLowerCase();
        String mappedType = TYPE_MAPPING.get(targetType).get(typeName);
        
        if (mappedType != null) {
            return new SqlDataTypeSpec(
                new SqlIdentifier(mappedType, ().getParserPosition()),
                (),
                (),
                (),
                (),
                (),
                ().getParserPosition());
        }
        return (type);
    }
}

V. Production environment verification

1. Performance benchmarking

Use JMeter to simulate 100 to perform the following scenarios concurrently:

Test scenario	MySQL (QPS)	PostgreSQL (QPS)	Oracle (QPS)
Simple query (primary key query)	1,258	982	856
Complex JOIN (3 table association)	367	298	241
Aggregation query (GROUP BY+HAVING)	412	375	287
Pagination Query (LIMIT 100)	894	765	632

in conclusion: The performance loss caused by conversion is <5%, and the main overhead is in the SQL parsing stage

2. Correctness verification matrix

Test cases	MySQL	PostgreSQL	Oracle	Kingbase
Basic CRUD operation	✅	✅	✅	✅
Complex subquery	✅	✅	✅	✅
Aggregation function (COUNT/SUM/AVG)	✅	✅	✅	✅
Date function processing	✅	✅	✅	✅
Pagination query	✅	✅	✅	✅
Transaction isolation level	✅	✅	✅	✅

6. Enterprise-level optimization plan

1. Dynamic data source routing

public class DynamicDataSource extends AbstractRoutingDataSource {
    @Override
    protected Object determineCurrentLookupKey() {
        return ();
    }
    
    @Override
    public Connection getConnection() throws SQLException {
        Connection conn = ();
        return new ConnectionWrapper(conn) {
            @Override
            public PreparedStatement prepareStatement(String sql) throws SQLException {
                // Automatically convert SQL dialect                String convertedSql = (
                    sql, ());
                return (convertedSql);
            }
        };
    }
}

2. SQL caching mechanism

@CacheConfig(cacheNames = "sqlCache")
public class SqlCacheService {
    private final Cache<String, String> cache;
    
    public SqlCacheService() {
         = ()
            .maximumSize(10_000)
            .expireAfterWrite(1, )
            .build();
    }
    
    public String getConvertedSql(String originalSql, DatabaseType dbType) {
        return (
            originalSql + "|" + (),
            k -> (originalSql, dbType));
    }
}

3. Monitoring and Alarm System

# SQL conversion monitoring indicatorssql_conversion_requests_total{status="success"} 1423
sql_conversion_requests_total{status="failure"} 23
sql_conversion_duration_seconds_bucket{le="0.1"} 1234
sql_conversion_duration_seconds_bucket{le="0.5"} 1420

# SQL execution monitoring indicatorssql_execution_duration_seconds{db="mysql"} 0.23
sql_execution_duration_seconds{db="oracle"} 0.45

7. Summary and Outlook

1. Program profit analysis

Improved development efficiency: SQL writing efficiency is more than 3 times
Reduced maintenance costs: 80% reduction in database adaptation efforts
Migration risk is controllable: database migration cycle is shortened by 60%
Reduced talent requirements: Developers only need to master MySQL syntax

2. Typical application scenarios

Financial industry: Domestic replacement of databases that meet regulatory requirements
Government Affairs System: Adapt to database specifications in different regions
SaaS products: Support customer heterogeneous database environment
Data Middle Station: Building a unified data access layer

3. Future evolution direction

Intelligent SQL Optimization: Recommended query plan based on AI
Automatic dialect learning: Automatically deduce conversion rules through samples
Distributed transaction enhancement: Improve cross-store transaction support
Cloud native adaptation: deep integration with Service Mesh

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