Derby Database

About Apache Derby:

Apache Derby is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by the Apache Software Foundation that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing(OLTP) . It has a 2 MB disk-space footprint.

Apache Derby is developed as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license. Oracle distributes the same binaries under the name Java DB.

Installation and Configuration of Apache Derby with eclipse IDE:

Apache Derby is the default Database Server that comes along with Oracle Weblogic Server. It’s easy to install and simple to embed with eclipse IDE for development purposes.It requires only few jar to be included in the plugins directory of eclipse IDE. So now it’s easy to create your own derby DB in few minutes even in a restricted environments.

You can use the following link for the detailed installation and configuration.

http://db.apache.org/derby/integrate/plugin_help/start_toc.html

Derby technologies:

• Derby embedded database engine

• Derby Network Server

• Embedded Network Server

• Database Utilities

References:

1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Derby

2] http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/WorkingWithDerby#Examples

3] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0509cline/index.html

4] http://db.apache.org/derby/integrate/plugin_help/start_toc.html