MySQL, Postgres and now Derby... a new database that adds up to the competition. This time from IBM directly to the opensource community and under the wonderful Apache License.
Now this database is amazingly amazing, it supports transactions, its java based, it has a small footprint (2 Megabytes), it supports full encryption storage, it supports multiple access methods including SQL and low level API calls.
What I like about Derby the most is that it started as a commercial database (known as IBM Cloudscape) and then got released to opensource. This guarantees the best of both worlds; a commercial quality database with full opensource transparency and community support.
My only problem with projects that start as opensource is that you rarely find quality efforts put into them unless they are being sponsored by a big company or are provided with donations.
On the other hand, commercial products, if not thriving for quality, they risk a chance of losing their competition and their business. Not only quality software, but quality documentation and quality support and quality *. With a lot of exceptions here and there, I still believe that commercial products have a greater probability of meeting high quality standards.
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