JIRA uses Entity Engine module of the OfBiz suite to communicate with the database. You can learn more about the Entity Engine by reading its online documentation.

The database schema is described in the entitymodel.xml found in the WEB-INF/classes/entitydefs directory under the JIRA web application. The entitymodel.xml file has an XML definition of all JIRA's database tables, table columns and their data type. Some of the relationships between tables also appear in the file.

If you are using JIRA's API you will notice that a lot of code deals with GenericValue objects. The GenericValue is an OfBiz entity engine object. Each GenericValue object represents a record in the database.

To get a value of a field from a GenericValue you will need to use the relevant getter method for the field's type. For example:

GenericValue project = ...
String name = project.getString("name");
Long id = project.getLong("id");

The list of valid fields for each entity can be obtained by looking the entity's definition in the WEB-INF/classes/entitydefs/entitymodel.xml file. For the above example, one needs to look at the "Project" entity.

Relationships between tables

Some of the relationships between JIRA's tables in the database are documented below:

Issue Fields




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Change History







作業ログ

Work log entries are kept in the worklog table. For instance, some worklogs in JIRA (from JRA-10393):

are stored in worklog table as:

ID

issueid

author

grouplevel

rolelevel

worklogbody

created

updateauthor

updated

timeworked

startdate

83332

38315

mtokar

 

 

Implemented method to calculate number of active users + tests

2008-01-22 19:44:04.867-06

mtokar

2008-01-22 19:44:04.867-06

5400

2008-01-22 19:43:00-06

83333

38315

andreask@atlassian.com

 

 

Implemented a method to check if the user limit of the license has been exceeded.

2008-01-22 21:33:18.23-06

andreask@atlassian.com

2008-01-22 21:33:18.23-06

7200

2008-01-22 21:31:00-06

83334

38315

andreask@atlassian.com

 

 

Added new license types

2008-01-22 23:49:27.794-06

andreask@atlassian.com

2008-01-22 23:51:06.029-06

7200

2008-01-22 23:48:00-06

83335

38315

andreask@atlassian.com

 

 

Integrate new license types in JIRA.

2008-01-22 23:51:23.799-06

andreask@atlassian.com

200

ここで:

Whenever a worklog entry is added, the jiraissue.timespent and jiraissue.timeestimate values are incremented and decremented respectively.

ユーザーとグループ







Issue status and workflow







Example SQLs

Some examples of SQLs that can be run against the JIRA schema:
Example SQL queries for JIRA