HSQLDB is a relational database engine written in Java. Version 1.8.0 has many new features and improvements. There are quite a large number of changes and new features compared to 1.7.1. Please read the documentation for details. Please also check the web site at http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net periodically for any release updates.
This download contains the following files and directories:
bin
This directory contains Linux scripts for running the HSQLDB server and an MSDOS batch file for running the hsqldb utilities.
This directory contains the ant build.xml script plus MSDOS batch file for build. See readmebuild.txt
This directory contains the *.class files generated by the ANT build tool. It does not exist in the distribution zip.
This directory contains sample Linux scripts and batch files to run the tools and the database program. There are also some HTML pages with HSQLDB embedded as an applet.
A set of HTML , PDF and text documents covering different aspects of HSQLDB and some of its utilities.
User Guide: index.html
User Guide: guide.pdf
How to store a readonly database in your application jar
databaseinjar.txt
Sample Find File application: hsqlFindFile.html
list of changes in version 1.8.0 changelog_1_8_0.txt
chronological list of changes in version 1.8.0 changelist_1_8_0.txt
chronological list of changes in version 1.7.3 changelist_1_7_3.txt
list of changes in version 1.7.2 changelog_1_7_2.txt
chronological list of changes in version 1.7.2 changelist_1_7_2.txt
list of changes until version 1.7.1 changelog_1_7_1.txt
The license texts for the source and binaries (hypersonic_lic.txt for modified sources originally from the HypersonicSQL project) (hsqldb_lic.txt for sources developed entirely by the HSQLDB Development Group).
The /src directory contains the JavaDoc for public classes, including the JDBC documentation.
All binaries are in this directory, as is the hsqldb.jar, already built by the ANT procedure. The provided servlet.jar is needed only for recompiling hsqldb and is not required for deployment.
All source code is in this directory.
Contains test scripts for the database engine and SqlTool.
June 2005
Fred Toussi
fredt (at) users.sourceforge.net