MySQL Connector/J Replacement [closed]

Question

I was wondering if there are any alternatives to using the MySQL Connector/J JDBC driver? Connector/J is licensed under a GPL license which will not work in my case. I like MySQL, but I also can not afford to pay the fees for becoming a partner (I read online somewhere it's about $600 a year).

I was hoping that there would be some other open-source driver online under a different license that I could use in my closed-source application, but haven't been able to find one.

If there's no replacement, then does anyone have any other databases they recommend? I'm thinking of switching to PostgreSQL.

Answer 1

Drizzle provides a BSD licensed JDBC connector that can connect to MySQL.

Once you add the jar, all you need to do is use this as your driver:

org.drizzle.jdbc.DrizzleDriver

and this as your protocol:

mysql:thin

References:

• http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-faq-is-there-any-java-connector-for-mariadb-than-the-one-from-mysql
• http://wiki.drizzle.org/JDBC/ConnectionStrings
• http://search.maven.org/#browse|889349485

Answer 2

In the meantime, there is also a JDBC driver provided by the MariaDB team. It is licensed under the LGPL and is fully compatible with the official driver. Even the URL schema is the same: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/about-the-mariadb-java-client/