JDBC vs ODBC Before JDBC, developers used Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), a language-agnostic standard approach to accessing a relational database management system, or RDBMS.

At the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Markus Kett presented a database alternative for Java: the in-memory EclipseStore promises faster data processing with lower cloud costs and fewer CO2 emissions.

The most serious vulnerability is a critical flaw in the Java VM component (CVE-2016-3454) in Oracle Database Server versions 11.2.04, 12.1.0.1, and 12.1.0.2.