The solidDB® JDBC Driver 2.0 is a JDBC type 4 driver. Type 4 means that it is a 100% Pure Java implementation of the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) 2.0 standard. It is usable in all Java environments supporting JDK 1.4.2 and above.
The JDBC API defines Java classes to represent database connections, SQL statements, result sets, database metadata, and so on. It allows a Java programmer to issue SQL statements and process the results. JDBC is the primary API for database access in Java.
The solidDB® JDBC Driver is written entirely in Java and it communicates directly with the solidDB® server using the TCP/IP network protocol, shared memory access (SMA), or linked library access (LLA). The solidDB® JDBC Driver does not require any additional database access libraries. The driver requires that a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) is available.