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HSQLDB users take note

 
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Hi folks --

If you've used, or are using HSQLDB (http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net/) I'd appreciate a brief description of what you did with it and what you think. I'm trying to get an idea of how much usage this software actually gets.
 
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I used it for my university project once. It was a web application with JSP, Servlets and a bundled-in HSQL DB.
I think I will probabely use it again for writing sample applications etc.
 
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I once used it for a in-memory database that was not persisted on disk at all.
 
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We're using it in the automated integration tests for the Spring/Hibernate/Oracle project we've been working on for the last nine months. Can't say anything about its behaviour in a production situation, but it is happy enough to handle the sometimes hefty SQL statements Hibernate throws at it during the tests.

- Peter
 
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Very tiny and efficient,
It helped me to shift my whole webapp application including database as a jar file. All the user have to do is install the jar in their application server.
 
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I used it to deliver an Access like Swing Application for someone that wanted to persist all his Star Wars crap. He had one in MS Access so I basically mirrored its functionallity and used HSQLDB so he didn't need anything extra to install.
 
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We have previously used HSQLDB as a server for the very-early startup phases of projects, knowing that it would be replaced before the project got too serious. It's a bit hard to explain the decision process, it was a while ago. We tend to default to MySql now when the database is unspecified.

I also tend to plug a standalone instance into web apps when I'm just scratching out a thought.
 
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I use it in my demo application as an in-memory database that allows me to ship my war and require no installation of a separate database product like mySQL on the end users part.

If you go to http://ssouza.kgbinternet.com/fdsapi/demo.jsp any of the queries you issue go against hsqldb. This sample war is also available for download from http://www.fdsapi.com
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