Learn more about Java and database programming. Java developers often rely on specific database tools to efficiently manage data storage, retrieval and manipulation.

JDBC hasn't changed much With every new release of the JDK, new features and enhancements are added to the JDBC API. But despite the ongoing, incremental changes, the JDBC API has changed very little ...

Java developers, with their proficiency in one of the most widely used programming languages, have a wide array of tools at their disposal to tackle the challenges of Big Data.

Here we explain the difference between the four JDBC driver types, and how to choose the right JDBC driver for your database-driven Java apps.

The difference is that JDBC is Java-specific, offering a programming-level interface that handles the mechanics of Java applications communicating with a database. JDBC’s architecture ...

The core idea behind JPA as opposed to JDBC, is that for the most part, JPA lets you avoid the need to “think relationally.” In JPA, you define your persistence rules in the realm of Java code ...

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

A new standard--known as Java Data Objects (JDO)--promises to reduce the Java programming effort required to include corporate data in business applications.