The project's resources remain available in a read-only state. This includes the website (https://db.apache.org/derby/), mailing lists, wiki (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DERBY/FrontPage), Subversion repository, and JIRA bug tracker. Official distributions remain available on an as-is basis at https://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html.
The DB PMC announces the retirement of its Derby sub-project, due to
prolonged low activity. Derby is a small-footprint, pure-Java relational
database. Derby runs embedded in a local application as well as
client-server over a network. Databases can live on disk or in memory.
Existing, official versions support JVMs from Java 1.3 up through Java
21. The development mainline builds and tests cleanly on Java 25.
