MySQL Connector/J is a JDBC Type 4 driver, which means that it is pure Java implementation of the MySQL protocol and does not rely on the MySQL client libraries. This driver supports auto-registration with the Driver Manager, standardized validity checks, categorized SQLExceptions, support for large update counts, support for local and offset date-time variants from the java.time package, support for JDBC-4.x XML processing, support for per connection client information and support for the NCHAR, NVARCHAR ...