This page provides useful information about JDBC driver settings for various database. All databases below have custom Cayenne DbAdapters and are automatically recognized by Cayenne AutoAdapter.

DB2

Vendor Site http://www.ibm.com/db2/
Driver Name com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver
Sample URL jdbc:db2://127.0.0.1:50000/dbname

Derby

Vendor Site http://db.apache.org/derby/
  Embedded
Driver Name org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver
Sample URL jdbc:derby:path-to-hsql-db-files;create=true
  Remote Server
Driver Name org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver
Sample URL jdbc:derby://127.0.0.1/testdb

FireBird (Interbase)

Vendor Site http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
Driver Name org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver
Sample URL jdbc:firebirdsql:127.0.0.1/10007:/path-to-dbname.fdb
Notes FirebirdAdapter hasn't been well-tested for some time. Looking for volunteer FireBird users to help us.

FrontBase

Vendor Site http://www.frontbase.com/
Driver Name jdbc.FrontBase.FBJDriver
Sample URL jdbc:FrontBase://127.0.0.1/dbname

HSQLDB

Vendor Site http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net/
Driver Name org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
  Embedded
Sample URL jdbc:hsqldb: file:/path-to-hsql-db-files
  Remote Server
Sample URL jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://127.0.0.1

H2

(since Cayenne 3.0)

Vendor Site http://www.h2database.com/
Driver Name org.h2.Driver
  In Memory
Sample URL jdbc:h2:mem:myTestMem;MVCC=TRUE

Ingres

(since Cayenne 1.2)

Vendor Site http://www.ingres.com/products/ingres-database.php
Driver Name com.ingres.jdbc.IngresDriver
Sample URL jdbc:ingres://127.0.0.1:II7/dbname

MySQL

Vendor Site http://www.mysql.com/
Driver Name com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
Sample URL jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/dbname

OpenBase

Vendor Site http://www.openbase.com/
Driver Name com.openbase.jdbc.ObDriver
Sample URL jdbc:openbase://127.0.0.1/dbname

Oracle (10i)

Vendor Site http://oracle.com/
Driver Name oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
Sample URL jdbc:oracle:thin:@//127.0.0.1:1521/dbname

Oracle (8, 8i, 9i)

Vendor Site http://oracle.com/
Driver Name oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
Sample URL jdbc:oracle:thin:@127.0.0.1:1521:dbname

PostgreSQL (7.4, 8.*)

Vendor Site http://www.postgresql.org/
Driver Name org.postgresql.Driver
Sample URL jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/dbname

SQLite 3.*

(since Cayenne 3.0)

Vendor Site http://www.sqlite.org/ http://www.zentus.com/sqlitejdbc/
Driver Name org.sqlite.JDBC
Sample URL jdbc:sqlite:path_to_dbfile

SQLServer

  Microsoft Driver - SQL Server
Vendor Site http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/aa937724.aspx
Driver Name com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
Sample URL jdbc:sqlserver://127.0.0.1;databaseName=dbname
  Microsoft Driver - SQL Server prior to 2005
Driver Name com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
Sample URL jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://127.0.0.1;databaseName=dbname;SelectMethod=cursor
  jTDS Driver
Vendor Site http://jtds.sourceforge.net/
Driver Name net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver
Sample URL jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://127.0.0.1:5000/dbname

Sybase

  Sybase Driver
Vendor Site http://www.sybase.com/
Driver Name com.sybase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybDriver
Sample URL jdbc:sybase:Tds:127.0.0.1:5000/dbname
  jTDS Driver
Vendor Site http://jtds.sourceforge.net/
Driver Name net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver
Sample URL jdbc:jtds:sybase://127.0.0.1:5000/dbname;useLOBs=false;TDS=4.2