Below is the list of features of jTDS 1.3.
  
    Compliance  | 
  
  
    | SQL Server 2008, 2005, 2000, 7.0, 6.5 Compliant | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Sybase 10, 11, 12, 15 Compliant | 
    Yes (not all features available for Sybase) | 
  
  
    | JDK 7 Compliant | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Sun Certified 100% Pure JavaTM | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    Feature Summary  | 
  
  
    | Open Source and Freely Distributable | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Prepared and Callable Statements | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Updateable Result Sets | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Scrolling Result Sets | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Batch Updates | 
    Yes (fully optimized, single request/response) | 
  
  
    | Statement Pooling | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Full Timeout Support | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Full Range of Cursor Types | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Full BLOB and CLOB Support | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | BLOB and CLOB Locator Support | 
    No | 
  
  
    | Unlimited Statements per Connection | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Generated keys retrieval | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Named parameters | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Savepoints | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Parameter metadata | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | RowSet implementation | 
    No (recommended RowSet implementation:
      Sun
      reference implementation 1.0.1) | 
  
  
    | Metadata caching | 
    Yes (configurable on connection creation) | 
  
  
    J2EE Support  | 
  
  
    | JNDI Data Sources | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Connection Pooling | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Connection Pool Implementation | 
    No (recommended pool implementations:
      DBCP and
      c3p0) | 
  
  
    | XA Distributed Transactions | 
    Yes (experimental) | 
  
  
    SQL Server-Specific  | 
  
  
    | Optimized Native Protocol Performance | 
    Yes (benchmark results: [1]) | 
  
  
    | Windows Authentication | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | SQL Server named instances | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Ignoring of update counts from triggers | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Send String data as ASCII/Unicode | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | NTEXT, NCHAR and NVARCHAR Support | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Named Pipes | 
    Yes (using the filesystem locally and jCIFS
      over the network) | 
  
  
    | SSL Encryption | 
    Yes | 
  
  
    | Fast Forward-Only Cursors | 
    Yes |