Documentation for Crowd 1.0. Documentation for other versions of Crowd is available too.
The default version of Crowd uses an embedded HSQL DB
Also see http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/ch01.html#N101C2 .
HSQL DB periodically must update its files to represent changes made in the database. In doing so, it must delete the current crowddb.data
file on the filesystem (beneath the /database
folder) and replace it with a new one.
If an administrator issues a shutdown on Crowd in this period, data can be lost, and typically all configuration data for your Crowd server will be lost.
HSQLDB should not be used as a production database. It is included for evaluation purposes only.