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I am doing an undergrad final project, and need to justify my choice of MySQL for the database element of my project. Truth is, it’s the only one I can really use, and hence I went for it.
What other database systems could I have used? Any advantages and disadvantages of these over MySQL?
In fact, you can use every database which is accessible through a JDBC driver. Almost all self-respected RDBMS vendors provides a fullworthy JDBC driver for download at their homepage. Just Google “[vendorname] jdbc driver download” to find it. Here’s an overview:
/javafolder of the DB2 installation.This way you can use the JDBC API transparently to access either of the databases.
As to which database to choose, just look at the features, robustness, performance, etc the RDBMS provides and the budget you have -if it isn’t freeware. I myself tend to prefer PostgreSQL.
Instead of a fullfledged database server, you can also consider an embedded Javabased database, such as
SunOracle JavaDB, Apache Derby, HSQLDB or SQLite, each which are of course accessible through the JDBC API the usual way.