The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and ease of use. The base upon which MySQL is built is a set of routines that have been used in a highly demanding production environment for many years. Although MySQL is still under development, it already offers a rich and highly useful function set. Commercial support is also available. IBM DB2 - DB2 Universal Database for Linux offers support for JDBC and SQLJ, and Net.
Data allows for the creation of dynamic data driven Web applications.
DBMS - a database management system. A suite of programs which typically manage large structured sets of persistent data, offering ad hoc query facilities to many users. They are widely used in business applications. This allows Java programs to interact with any SQL-compliant database. SQLJ - allows you to create, build, and run embedded SQL for Java applications, applets, and stored procedures.