TDS:
Tabular Data Stream (TDS) is an application layer protocol, used to transfer data between a database server and a client.
It was initially designed and developed by Sybase Inc. for their Sybase SQL Server relational database engine in 1984, and later by Microsoft in Microsoft SQL Server.
FreeTDS is a free software programming library, a re-implementation of the Tabular Data Stream protocol.
jTDS is a Java implementation of FreeTDS, available on Sourceforge.
jTDS is an open source JDBC 3.0 driver for Microsoft SQL Server and sybase SQL Server.
JTDS是一个开放源代码的100%纯Java的,用于JDBC 3.0 驱动Microsoft SQL Server (6.5 ,7 ,2000和2005版本)和Sybase(10 ,11 ,12 ,15 版本)的驱动程序 。
JTDS是基于freetds的,并且是目前最快的生产准备JDBC驱动程序为SQL Server和Sybase 。
JTDS完全与JDBC 3.0兼容,支持只向前的,和可滚动/可更新的结果集(ResultSets)中并行(完全独立)语句,并且可实施所有databasemetadata和resultsetmetadata方法。