Introducing Derby

Welcome to Derby! Derby is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that is based on Java??? and SQL.

This section describes Derby.

• Deployment options
  You can deploy Derby in a number of different ways.
• System requirements
  Derby is a database engine written completely in Java; it will run in any certified Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
• The Derby library
  The Derby library includes the Derby manuals and API reference.