Re: [tlug] New OS DBs

[Shawn <javajunkie@example.com>]

> IBM gave their JAVA based DB server "Cloudscape" to the Apache Foundation,
> where it is now in the incubator under the name "Derby".

Not there yet but within a few weeks I believe.

>  Interesting
> because it is written in Java, and should therefore be easy to run on any
> customised Linux kernel, and second because it is compatible with DB2 (we
> could migrate away from the old Suse Database Server in our office).

Small footprint -- 2MB of class files, and it uses as little as 4MB of Java heap-- embeddable in applications (for instance w/ tomcat).

Will use!

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Shawn

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