This article presents an overview of JDBC and JDBC drivers, followed by a hands-on introduction to using JDBC to connect a Java client to a lightweight relational database.

Get to know the Java persistence standard based on Hibernate and learn how to use JPA to store and manage Java objects in a relational or NoSQL database.

An introduction to NoSQL databases, and how they differ from Relational Databases An overview of Tabular, Document, Column Oriented, Key Values Oriented and Graph Databases ...

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