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I'm including the news release on this page that explains everything: MySQL Adds Popular JDBC Driver to Product Line-up 13 Aug 2002 New, enhanced version of Mark Matthews' Open Source Java driver debuts as "MySQL Connector/J" LINUXWORLD EXPO - (August 13, 2002) - MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular Open Source database, today announced that it has added a new JDBC driver, "MySQL^TM Connector/J" to the company's line of supported technologies. The driver, which was originally developed by Mark Matthews in 1998 as the Open Source "MMMySQL" driver, debuts as a MySQL product with significant performance and feature enhancements that will help maintain its position as the leading driver for Java connectivity to the MySQL database. "Mark Matthews has joined the MySQL team and has brought with him an extremely valuable technology that we are proud to offer as an official MySQL API," said David Axmark, MySQL co-founder and vice president of Open Source relations. "Drivers have a huge impact on performance, and with MySQL Connector/J, Java developers have a solution that will take the built-for-speed MySQL database to new performance highs." MySQL Connector/J: A Proven Technology MySQL Connector/J is a native Java driver that converts JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) calls into the network protocol used by the MySQL database. It lets developers working with the Java programming language easily build programs and applets that interact with MySQL and connect all corporate data, even in a heterogeneous environment. MySQL Connector/J is a Type IV JDBC driver and has a complete JDBC feature set that supports the capabilities of MySQL. MySQL Connector/J has been downloaded over 206,000 times as the "MMMySQL" driver since moving to the SourceForge web site in 2000. It consistently ranks in the top 100 projects from SourceForge in terms of downloads and other activities of the almost 45,000 projects hosted there. In the results, MySQL is presented as having the overall best performance and scalability along with Oracle9i. Also, MySQL excelled in stability, ease of tuning and connectivity.
MySQL Connector/J Adds Speed, Stability, Features MySQL Connector/J enters the MySQL product family with many improvements that have been requested by the Open Source community. The driver is now 50-100 percent faster in most situations than the previous version. It also creates fewer transient objects than before, leading to better performance and even more stability. The driver now also supports "streaming" result sets, which allows users to retrieve large numbers of rows without using a large memory buffer. With newly added large-packet protocol support, the driver can send rows and BLOBs up to 2 gigabytes in size. New features from the JDBC-30 API in MySQL Connector/J include getGeneratedKeys which allows users to retrieve auto-increment fields in a non-database-specific way. Auto-increment fields now work with object-relational mapping tools as well as Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) servers with Container Managed Persistence (CMP) that support JDBC-30 The MySQL database is increasingly used as the embedded database in major Java-based software applications and network devices, and the new, enhanced MySQL Connector/J driver will provide these applications with even greater performance, more stability, and a richer feature set.
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