Resolving a HSQLDB Exception in Hibernate 4

Recently I was trying to have a small working PoC on a multi-tenancy in Hibernate 4.

All the Hibernate 4 dependencies were declared in the pom.xml including the hsqldb.

<dependency>
<groupId>hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<version>1.8.0.10</version>
</dependency>

When the application was tested, it threw the following exception:

org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: This function is not supported
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: This function is not supported

Then, as usual, I got some references over the net and found that the problem is due to the hsqldb.

So I changed the dependency to the following:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<version>2.2.8</version>
</dependency>

And it started working!