If you look at the Zend\Db\Adapter\AdapterServiceFactory, you’ll see that your adapter configuration points to only one key 'db'. Which means that the Adapter that it builds will always use this (unique) configuration key.

I recommend you to create your own factory that would look like this :

namespace Your\Namespace;

use Zend\ServiceManager\FactoryInterface;
use Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceLocatorInterface;
use Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter;

class MyAdapterFactory implements FactoryInterface
{

  protected $configKey;

  public function __construct($key)
  {
      $this->configKey = $key;
  }

  public function createService(ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator)
  {
      $config = $serviceLocator->get('Config');
      return new Adapter($config[$this->configKey]);
  }
}

In your main module (or any other one), add the following to the Module.php file to declare the adapters factories to the Zend Service Manager:

use Your\Namespace\MyAdapterFactory;
use Zend\ModuleManager\Feature\ServiceProviderInterface;

class Module implements ServiceProviderInterface{

//Previous code

public function getServiceConfig()
{
    return array(
        'factories' => array(
            'myadapter1'        => new MyAdapterFactory('dbconfigkey1'),
            'myadapter2'        => new MyAdapterFactory('dbconfigkey2'),
            ),
       );

}

//...

The global config should now look like:

return array(
'dbconfigkey1' => array(
    'driver'         => 'Pdo',
    'dsn'            => 'mysql:dbname=my_db;host=localhost',
    'driver_options' => array(
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES \'UTF8\''
    ),
    'username' => 'user',
    'password' => '******',
),

'dbconfigkey2' => array(
    'driver'         => 'Pdo',
    'dsn'            => 'mysql:dbname=my_db2;host=localhost',
    'driver_options' => array(
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES \'UTF8\''
    ),
    'username' => 'user',
    'password' => '******',
),

);

to use the adapters you need to call them using the Service Manager:

$adapter1=$serviceManager->get('myadapter1');
$adapter2=$serviceManager->get('myadapter2');

As of version 2.2

An Abstract Service Factory is now part of the zf2 Zend\Db module. It is possible to add multiples configuration keys under the ‘adapters’ sub-key :

'db'=> array(
    'adapters'=>array(
        'adapter' => array(
            'driver'         => 'Pdo',
            'dsn'            => 'mysql:dbname=test;host=localhost',
            'username' => 'readCredential',
            'password' => '****'
        ),
        'adapter2' => array(
            'driver'         => 'Pdo',
            'dsn'            => 'mysql:dbname=test;host=localhost',
            'username' => 'rwCredential',
            'password' => '****'
        ),
    )
),

However, the AbstractServiceFactory need to be added “manually” as it isn’t so by default :

'service_manager' => array(
    'abstract_factories' => array(
            'Zend\Db\Adapter\AdapterAbstractServiceFactory',
    )
),

The adapters are accessible as previously :

$adapter1=$serviceManager->get('adapter');
$adapter2=$serviceManager->get('adapter2');

From a performance perspective this second approach is better : One object will be instantiated (The abstract factory) to (potentially) create the different adapters. Whereas in the previous approach, one object per configuration was created.