Apache Derby

Apache Derby
Original author(s)Cloudscape Inc (Later IBM)
Developer(s)Apache Software Foundation
Stable release
10.17.1.0 / November 14, 2023; 12 months ago (2023-11-14)
RepositoryDerby Repository
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeRelational Database Management System
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitedb.apache.org/derby/

Apache Derby (previously distributed as IBM Cloudscape) 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. It has a 3.5 MB disk-space footprint.[1]

Apache Derby is developed as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license. For a time, Oracle distributed the same binaries under the name Java DB.[2] In June 2015 they announced that for JDK 9 they would no longer be doing so.[3]

  1. ^ "Apache Derby". Apache.org.
  2. ^ Java DB - FAQs: "Is Java DB a fork of Apache Derby?"
  3. ^ Deferring to Derby in JDK 9