followed by a hands-on introduction to using JDBC to connect a Java client to a lightweight relational database. Before JDBC, developers used Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), a language-agnostic ...

But don't try to connect to them with JDBC in Java. It is only for relational databases, so stick with the Apache Derby and MySQL instances. When you learn how to program against a database with JDBC ...

This driver contains all of the information required to connect the Java program to the underlying database. The JDBC driver is vendor specific, so the MySQL JDBC driver is different from the Apache ...