Apache Derby, available under the Apache License Version 2.0, is a pure-Java relational database based on Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and SQL standards. Apache Derby occupies about 2 megabytes ...

How effective are free and open source data bases? For answers, we reviewed 6:: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL. Free or open source ...

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BANGALORE, INDIA: JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language that runs in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). As Ruby and Ruby on Rails become more popular, JRuby becomes an interesting ...

One dilemma of deployment is what to do about a SQL database. For easy deployment of a Java application, you've probably used tools like Web Start to let the application download and run in almost a ...

IBM has announced it is contributing its Java-based Cloudscape database software to the open-source community via the Apache Software Foundation, which will inspect the code and establish it as an ...

Following the gradual acceptance of Linux, open-source databases are moving into corporate data centers as an increasingly viable option. Databases have been available with an open-source license for ...

JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language that runs in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This tutorial demonstrates how to install and configure JRuby to connect to the Apache Derby ...