For example, Oracle uses the Procedural Language/Structured Query Language (PL/SQL) and Microsoft uses Transact-SQL to extend the functionality provided by the ANSI specifications.

Apache Phoenix: Its developers call it a “SQL skin for HBase” — a way to query HBase with SQL-like commands via an embeddable JDBC driver built for high performance and read/write operations.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become the de facto standard for lightweight data exchange across applications, especially within modern web-based platforms. For Oracle APEX developers, JSON ...

There a number of pure Java SQL database systems develolpers can embed into applications. In this tip we introduce two open source projects, HSQLDB and Apache Derby.