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 ==== Relational database (DB2, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server)
 
+[NOTE]
+====
+Spring Cloud Spring Service Connector selects from a number of connection-pooling `DataSource` implementations based on availability and following a set priority. See <<_detection_and_prioritization_of_code_datasource_code_implementations,Detection and Prioritization of `DataSource` Implementations>>.
+////
+If you need to reorder the prioritization of supported implementations, see <<_detection_and_prioritization_of_code_datasource_code_implementations,Detection and Prioritization of `DataSource` Implementations>> below.
+////
+====
+
 To connect to a unique relational database service, you can create a service bean using `dataSource()`. The following example connects to the only relational database service bound to the application.
 
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@@ -202,6 +210,17 @@ public DataSource dataSource() {
 }
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+===== Detection and Prioritization of `DataSource` Implementations
+
+When creating a `DataSource`, the connector prefers any of the following four connection-pooling `DataSource` implementations, in the order shown.
+
+1. https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-dbcp/[Apache Commons DBCP and DBCP 2]
+2. Tomcat DBCP
+3. https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/jdbc-pool.html[Tomcat JDBC Connection Pool]
+4. http://brettwooldridge.github.io/HikariCP/[HikariCP]
+
+The connector uses the first of these that is found on the classpath. If none of these are on the classpath, the connector falls back to a http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/jdbc/datasource/SimpleDriverDataSource.html[`SimpleDriverDataSource`], which does not reuse connections.
+
 ==== MongoDB
 
 To connect to a unique MongoDB service, you can create a service bean using `mongoDbFactory()`. The following example connects to the only MongoDB service bound to the application.