Apache Derby

last modified July 6, 2020

This is Apache Derby tutorial. This tutorial will cover the Derby database engine, the SQL understood by Derby and programming Derby with the JDBC.

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Derby

Derby is a database engine written in Java language. It has a relatively small footprint of 2-3MB. It works in two modes: embedded and client-server.

Derby has roots in 1996 as JBMS. Later it was renamed to Cloudscape. In 1999 the company developing Cloudscape was bought by Informix, which was later acquired by IBM. In 2004 IBM contributed the code to the Apache Software Foundation. The Derby project was born. Sun joined the project and included the Derby in Java 6. The project is rebranded as Java DB in JDK.

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In Introduction to EJBs, we use Derby database to save entities. A Tomcat Derby tutorial shows how to create a Java web application with Tomcat, Derby, and NetBeans. In a Displaying database data in datagrid tutorial we show how to display data from a Derby database in a EasyUI datagrid control.