Documentation

Latest Documentation

User documentation: (contributions and translations are welcome)

C-JDBC User's Guide [html] [html one page] [pdf] [ps]
C-JDBC Horizontal Scalability - A controller replication user guide , Mar 05 [pdf]
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) about C-JDBC [html]
C-JDBC Tutorial [ english pdf] [ german pdf]
C-JDBC brochure [ english pdf ]

Contributed documentation:

C-JDBC Japanese introduction [html] [pdf]
Running xPetstore with C-JDBC Tutorial [ english pdf] [ german pdf]
HOWTO use C-JDBC with Apache Derby v0.2 [ english pdf] [ german pdf]

Developer documentation: (work in progress, contributions are welcome)

C-JDBC Developer's Guide [pdf, sxw]
C-JDBC Javadoc [html]
C-JDBC Doxygen [ english] [ japanese]
C-JDBC JUnit Suite Test Reports [html]
C-JDBC Test Suite [html]

White papers and articles

These documents details C-JDBC concepts and internals:

C-JDBC: Flexible Database Clustering Middleware, Apr 04 (updated Mar 05) [pdf]
RAIDb: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Databases (INRIA Research Report), Sep 03 [pdf]

Documents and reference articles on technology used by C-JDBC:

JGroups evaluation in J2EE cluster environments, INRIA Research Report n°5536, Aug 2004 [pdf].
Nuts and bolts of transaction processing (Dr. Subrahmanyam Allamaraju)
Concurrency control and recovery in database systems (Philip A. Bernstein, Vassos Hadzilacos, Nathan Goodman)

Talks

20 jul 2005 - Building Highly Available Database Applications for Apache Derby - ApacheCon'05, Stuttgart, Germany [ppt ] [ pdf handouts]
18 jan 2005 - Highly available database clusters with JDBC - ObjectWeb annual conference, Lyon, France [ppt ] [ pdf ]
3 feb 2005 - Applications Web et bases de données en grappe - Seminaire InTech, Grenoble, France [french ppt ]
15 nov 2004 - Highly available web sites with Tomcat and Clustered JDBC - ApacheCon'04, Las Vegas, NV, USA [ppt ]
7 oct 2004 - C-JDBC contribution to the GORDA project - GORDA Kickoff meeting, Porto, Portugal [ppt ]
30 jun 2004 - C-JDBC: Flexible Database Clustering Middleware - Usenix Annual Technical Conference, Freenix Track, Boston, MA, USA [ ppt]
23 feb 2004 - C-JDBC Status - JOnAS Developer Workshop, Grenoble, France [ppt] [pdf]
03 feb 2004 - A High Performance Database Clustering Middleware - Solution Linux, Paris, France [ppt] [pdf]
21 nov 2003 - A High Performance Database Clustering Middleware - ObjectWeb Conference, Paris, France [ ppt] [ pdf] [ html]
07 nov 2003 - An open source middleware to build redundant Array of Inxepensive databases - FU Berlin, Germany [ppt] [pdf]
25 sep 2003 - C-JDBC: Our experience of open source - ObjectWeb Architecture meeting, Grenoble, France [ ppt] [ pdf]
05 aug 2003 - Dynamic Content Web Sites: Technologies & Scalability - Linux World 2003, San Francisco, USA [ppt] [pdf]
15 may 2003 - J2EE Performance Scalability and Clustering - JAX 2003, Frankfurt, Germany [part1 (pdf)] [part2 (pdf)]

C-JDBC on the web

Threads about C-JDBC

C-JDBC 1.1 release on TheServerSide.
C-JDBC 1.1 release on NewsForge.
C-JDBC 1.1 release on JavaLobby.
C-JDBC 1.1 release on OSDir.
Clustering and Load Balancing in Tomcat 5, Part 1, an OnJava article.
C-JDBC 1.0 released on Slashdot
C-JDBC 1.0 released on TheServerSide
LinuxWorld, San Francisco: LinuxWorld Magazine Editors Judge Product Excellence Awards
IDG World Expo and LinuxWorld Magazine Name Finalists for LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards
Distributed Web-Applications using the Keel Meta-Framework
Budget-HA.com, High Availability Infrastructure on a budget
Slashdot: Open Source Database Clusters?
The ServerSide: Clustered JDBC (C-JDBC) Performance Report
Annoucement of the 1.0alpha0 release on TheServerSide.com.
Database Clusters for the Masses (thread on Slashdot).
Annoucement of the 1.0alpha0 release on APPLICATION-SERVERS.COM (in French).
Cluster libre de bases de données (thread on Da Linux French Page, in French).
New priorities change the database race (Martin LaMonica, ZDNet).
Database dichotomy - Luxury models face cost-conscious buyers (Martin LaMonica, CNET news.com) (same article as above).

Sites referencing C-JDBC

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