A programmer needs a specific driver to connect to a specific database, the following table list some of the popular drivers. Driver RDMS oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver ORACLE com.mysql.jdbc.Driver MySQL com.sybase.jdbc.SybDriver Sybase com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver SQL Server com.ibm.db2.jdbc.net.DB2Driver DB2 org.hsqldbJdbcDriver HSQL DB Thanks Samit Katiyar