The project is basically a way to create RESTful endpoints on top of a SQL Server database then retrieve the relational data as plain XML, JSON or a subset of RDF+XML using HTTP requests.
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Derby is a JavaRDBMS undergoing incubation at Apache Software Foundation. It is a fully functioned standards based JDBC & SQL RDBMS with tables, indexes, views, triggers, sub-queries, procedures, functions, transactions, isolation levels, encryption, etc.
Derby is an open-source version of the commercial “Cloudscape” database, which IBM bought several years ago.