Setting up hsqldb

hsqldb is a java based database server

Install it:

apt-get install hsqldb-server

Create the server.properties and sqltool.rc files in your home folder (sample files should be where hsqldb was installed)

The main jar file is /usr/share/java/hsqldb.jar, which should be in your CLASSPATH when working with hsqldb

Place a link in /usr/share/tomcat5.5/common/lib if you want to use it with tomcat 5.5.

There is a swing utility to test and manage the databases.

Starting the server:

java -cp /path/to/hsqldb.jar org.hsqldb.Server


Database URL:

jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost/mydb