Given:

• MariaDB 10.2 is running
• A process engine is configured to use that MariaDB 10.2
• A JDBC driver version >= 1.7.0 (or >= 2.1.0) is used
• Batch processing is enabled
• History cleanup is enabled
• Process engine has been started at least once
• Process engine is stopped

When:

• The process engine is re-started

Then:

• Bootstrapping the process engine fails with an OptmisticLockingException

  The required Server component failed to start so Tomcat is unable to start.
  org.camunda.bpm.engine.OptimisticLockingException: ENGINE-03005 Execution of 'UPDATE EverLivingJobEntity[b2d4680a-2d23-11e8-8147-803220524153]' failed. Entity was updated by another transaction concurrently.
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.db.EnginePersistenceLogger.concurrentUpdateDbEntityException(EnginePersistenceLogger.java:132)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.db.entitymanager.DbEntityManager.handleOptimisticLockingException(DbEntityManager.java:483)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.db.entitymanager.DbEntityManager.checkFlushResults(DbEntityManager.java:442)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.db.entitymanager.DbEntityManager.flushDbOperations(DbEntityManager.java:359)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.db.entitymanager.DbEntityManager.flushDbOperationManager(DbEntityManager.java:318)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.db.entitymanager.DbEntityManager.flush(DbEntityManager.java:290)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext.flushSessions(CommandContext.java:203)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext.close(CommandContext.java:132)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContextInterceptor.execute(CommandContextInterceptor.java:113)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.interceptor.ProcessApplicationContextInterceptor.execute(ProcessApplicationContextInterceptor.java:66)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.interceptor.LogInterceptor.execute(LogInterceptor.java:30)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.ProcessEngineImpl.executeSchemaOperations(ProcessEngineImpl.java:131)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.ProcessEngineImpl.<init>(ProcessEngineImpl.java:98)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.cfg.ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl.buildProcessEngine(ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl.java:724)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.jmx.services.JmxManagedProcessEngineController.start(JmxManagedProcessEngineController.java:34)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.jmx.MBeanServiceContainer.startService(MBeanServiceContainer.java:73)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.jmx.MBeanServiceContainer.startService(MBeanServiceContainer.java:59)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.deployment.StartProcessEngineStep.performOperationStep(StartProcessEngineStep.java:112)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.spi.DeploymentOperation.execute(DeploymentOperation.java:116)
  	... 16 common frames omitted
  Wrapped by: org.camunda.bpm.engine.ProcessEngineException: ENGINE-08043 Exception while performing 'deploy BPM platform' => 'Start process engine default': ENGINE-03005 Execution of 'UPDATE EverLivingJobEntity[b2d4680a-2d23-11e8-8147-803220524153]' failed. Entity was updated by another transaction concurrently.
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.ContainerIntegrationLogger.exceptionWhilePerformingOperationStep(ContainerIntegrationLogger.java:312)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.spi.DeploymentOperation.execute(DeploymentOperation.java:132)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.jmx.MBeanServiceContainer.executeDeploymentOperation(MBeanServiceContainer.java:156)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.spi.DeploymentOperation$DeploymentOperationBuilder.execute(DeploymentOperation.java:212)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.tomcat.TomcatBpmPlatformBootstrap.deployBpmPlatform(TomcatBpmPlatformBootstrap.java:72)
  	at org.camunda.bpm.container.impl.tomcat.TomcatBpmPlatformBootstrap.lifecycleEvent(TomcatBpmPlatformBootstrap.java:57)
  	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:94)
  	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setStateInternal(LifecycleBase.java:395)
  	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setState(LifecycleBase.java:339)
  	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:786)
  	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
  	... 7 common frames omitted
  

Hint:

• When history cleanup is disabled, then the engine is bootstrapped without any exception. But the whenever an UPDATE statement is performed an OptimisticLockingException is thrown.
• MariaDB 10.0 works with all JDBC driver versions and batch processing enabled.
• MariaDB 10.2 only works with JDBC driver versions < 1.7 or < 2.1
• The task is related with this forum post: https://forum.camunda.org/t/new-installation-of-camunda-fails-to-start-on-second-try/5863