How to disable Spring/Hibernate/Hazelcast joint cache?

Question

We use Hazelcast as our Hibernate 2nd level cache manager and we have some configurations for it in our Spring context files. Our code is also instrumented by Spring @Cacheable annotations (for business level cache) and we configured it to use Hazelcast . The problem is that in development environment we have multiple database instances and sometimes we should switch our application between them. Each time we switch to another database we should also restart the Hazelcast to be filled with new data and it is a REALY annoying work :(( This is more annoying when we need to have multiple instances of our application up on different databases! so we need also multiple instances of Hazelcast !!

As our code is tightly coupled with cache stuffs, it is so hard to remove cache configurations from the code for new instances. Is there any way to tell Hazelcast , Spring and Hibernate do not use/fill cache in presence of our configurations?

Answer 1

You should be able to turn off caching with the Spring and Hibernate configurations. In case of Spring Boot, you can do it by setting the following properties in your application-dev.properties :

spring.cache.type=NONE
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache=false