| 4.3 | Enhanced DatabaseMetaData to determine if Sharding is supported | Supported |
| 4.3 | Added the method drivers to DriverManager to return a Stream of the currently loaded and available JDBC drivers | Supported |
| 4.3 | Added support to Statement for enquoting literals and simple identifiers | Supported |
| 4.3 | Clarified the Java SE version that methods were deprecated | Supported |
| 4.3 | Added Sharding support | Not Supported |
| 4.3 | Enhanced Connection to be able to provide hints to the driver that a request, an independent unit of work, is beginning or ending | Not Supported |
| 4.2 | Added JDBCType enum and SQLType interface | Supported |
| 4.2 | Added support for large update counts | Supported |
| 4.2 | DatabaseMetaData methods to return the maximum Logical LOB size and if Ref Cursors are supported | Supported |
| 4.2 | Support for REF CURSORS in CallableStatement | Not Supported |
| 4.1 | Allow Connection, ResultSet and Statement objects to be used with the try-with-resources statement | Supported |
| 4.1 | Support added to CallableStatement and ResultSet to specify the Java type to convert to using the getObject method | Supported |
| 4.1 | Added support to Connection to specify a database schema, abort and timeout a physical connection. | Supported |
| 4.1 | DatabaseMetaData methods to return PseudoColumns and if a generated key is always returned | Not Supported |
| 4.1 | Added support to close a Statement object when its dependent objects have been closed | Not Supported |
| 4.1 | Support for obtaining the parent logger for a Driver, DataSource, ConnectionPoolDataSource and XADataSource | Not Supported |
| 4.0 | auto java.sql.Driver discovery — no longer need to load a java.sql.Driver class using Class.forName | Supported |
| 4.0 | National Character Set support added | Supported |
| 4.0 | Support added for the SQL:2003 XML data type | Not Supported |
| 4.0 | SQLException enhancements — Added support for cause chaining; New SQLExceptions added for common SQLState class value codes | Not Supported |
| 4.0 | Enhanced Blob/Clob functionality — Support provided to create and free a Blob/Clob instance as well as additional methods added to improve accessibility | Supported |
| 4.0 | Support added for accessing a SQL ROWID | Not Supported |
| 4.0 | Support added to allow a JDBC application to access an instance of a JDBC resource that has been wrapped by a vendor, usually in an application server or connection pooling environment. | Supported |
| 4.0 | Availability to be notified when a PreparedStatement that is associated with a PooledConnection has been closed or the driver determines is invalid | Not Supported |
| 3.0 | Pooled statements — reuse of statements associated with a pooled connection | Supported |
| 3.0 | Savepoints — allow a transaction to be rolled back to a designated savepoint | Not Supported |
| 3.0 | Properties defined for ConnectionPoolDataSource — specify how connections are to be pooled | Not Supported |
| 3.0 | Metadata for parameters of a PreparedStatement object | Not Supported |
| 3.0 | Ability to retrieve values from automatically generated columns | Not Supported |
| 3.0 | Ability to have multiple ResultSet objects returned from CallableStatement objects open at the same time | Not Supported |
| 3.0 | Ability to identify parameters to CallableStatement objects by name as well as by index | Not Supported |
| 3.0 | ResultSet holdability — ability to specify whether cursors should be held open or closed at the end of a transaction | Not Supported |
| 3.0 | Ability to retrieve and update the SQL structured type instance that a Ref object references | Not Supported |
| 3.0 | Ability to programmatically update BLOB, CLOB, and ARRAY values. | Supported |
| 3.0 | Addition of the java.sql.Types.DATALINK data type — allows JDBC drivers access to objects stored outside a data source | Not Supported |
| 3.0 | Addition of metadata for retrieving SQL type hierarchies | Not Supported |
| 2.1 | Scrollable result sets—using new methods in the ResultSet interface that allow the cursor to be moved to a particular row or to a position relative to its current position | Not Supported |
| 2.1 | Batch updates | Supported |
| 2.1 | Programmatic updates—using ResultSet updater methods | Not Supported |
| 2.1 | New data types—interfaces mapping the SQL3 data types | Supported |
| 2.1 | Custom mapping of user-defined types (UDTs) | Not Supported |
| 2.1 | Miscellaneous features, including performance hints, the use of character streams, full precision for java.math.BigDecimal values, additional security, and support for time zones in date, time, and timestamp values. | Supported |
| 2.0 | Pooled connections — allowing connections to be used and reused | Supported |
| 2.0 | Distributed transactions — allowing a transaction to span diverse DBMS servers | Not Supported |
| 2.0 | The DataSource interface as a means of making a connection. The is used for registering a DataSource object with a naming service and also for retrieving it. | Not Supported |
| 2.0 | RowSet technology — providing a convenient means of handling and passing data | Not Supported |
