Performance

• SPECjAppServer/ECPerf performance benchmark leader
• Multiple connection tuning options and easy driver tuning
• Bulk load operations
• Pooling and managing connections
• Statement pooling
• Freeze/Unfreeze pooled statements
• Data conversion
• Socket management
• Network wire management
• Batching and throughput optimization

Security

• Operating system authentication (aka Single Sign-On) via Kerberos
• SSL data encryption

Enterprise Application Functionality

• Application failover and load balancing
• Bulk load
• Interoperability between databases and different versions of each database

Driver Functionality

• Hibernate certification
• Fully internationalized—Unicode, double-byte, multi-byte
• JTA/JTS support
• Robust data type support such as BLOB/CLOB and timestamp values
• Savepoints
• Multiple open result sets
• Parameter meta data
• Testing and debugging tools

Specification
Compliance / Support

• Java SE 6.0
• JDBC 3.0
• JDBC 4.0
• J2EE Certified for 1.4, 1.3, 1.2 Compatibility Test Suites (CTS)
• Certified with J2EE Connector Architecture (resource adapters)
• Supports any Java-enabled platform that supports JDK 1.4 or higher*

*JDK 6.0 or higher required to use JDBC 4.0 functionality