JDBC drivers overview Before a JDBC application connects to a database, it must cause the proper JDBC driver to be loaded in the Java session.

provides the following JDBC drivers for use with the database engine:

  • org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver

    For embedded environments, when runs in the same JVM as the application. This is commonly referred to as the embedded drvier.

  • org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver

    For client/server environments that use the Network Server. This is commonly referred to as the Network Client driver.

You can use ij to connect to any database that supplies a JDBC driver. For those databases, you would need to load the supplied JDBC driver.