C-JDBC 1.0 Released

StupidEngineer writes "The C-JDBC is a middleware RAID system for databases written in Java. The 1.0 release is finally ready for download after years of the team's hard work. The system definitely has come a long way and is probably a very viable solution for those of us that can't afford large DB clustering solutions, yet still want good scalability and redundancy."

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Nonsense... this is an awesome project

[JavaRob]

Um... this isn't a database engine (though there *are* database engines written in Java). And I think you're still thinking of Java applets, which is really not a strong point. I'll skip the rant in favor of providing some actual info on the project, though, since it looks really cool.

Here's the homepage, with much better info that the download link above.

Basically, they provide a standard JDBC interface that your application can use normally (no code modification needed at all!). The driver forwards the SQL requests to a central controller that balances them on a cluster of replicated databases (reads are load-balanced and writes are broadcasted).

You can use it with any RDBMS providing a JDBC driver, i.e. almost all existing databases -- anything from Oracle and DB2 to MySql and PostgreSql to, yes, Cloudscape -- anything with a JDBC driver.

Sweet, huh?

It's also highly configurable and extensible (you can even mix *different* kinds of databases in your cluster!), with plug points for adding custom request schedulers, load balancers, connection managers, caching policies, etc.

This could be a godsend for some of my projects. Database access seems to always be the bottleneck that's hardest to fix without complex and expensive solutions.