In your configuration file, you can use a special variable called container.name.suffix in order to add a suffix to values that could change between portal containers. The value of this variable will be an empty sting if no PortalContainerDefinition has been defined otherwise the value will be \-$portal.container.name. See an example below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<configuration
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.exoplatform.org/xml/ns/kernel_1_2.xsd http://www.exoplatform.org/xml/ns/kernel_1_2.xsd"
xmlns="http://www.exoplatform.org/xml/ns/kernel_1_2.xsd">
<component>
<key>org.exoplatform.services.database.HibernateService</key>
<jmx-name>database:type=HibernateService</jmx-name>
<type>org.exoplatform.services.database.impl.HibernateServiceImpl</type>
<init-params>
<properties-param>
<name>hibernate.properties</name>
<description>Default Hibernate Service</description>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="false"/>
<property name="hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:file:../temp/data/exodb${container.name.suffix}"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.autocommit" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="sa"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password" value=""/>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect"/>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.min_size" value="5"/>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_size" value="20"/>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout" value="1800"/>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements" value="50"/>
</properties-param>
</init-params>
</component>
</configuration>