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developerWorks: Why IBM is Open Sourcing Cloudscape as Derby

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 27, 2004

Q: At LinuxWorld, IBM announced that it is contributing
Cloudscape to the Apache Software Foundation. What is
Cloudscape?

A: Cloudscape is a Java-based, fully
transactional relational database technology. It’s a purely
embedded database that can either be used within an application, or
as the database for a more traditional client-server application.
It has a very small footprint, and there’s no need for a database
administrator; you just write the application. You make your
database calls, and Cloudscape is there for you…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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