# Administrative tools

Derby provides some tools and features to assist database administrators, including the following.

- Consistency checker
- Online backup
- Procedures for importing and exporting data
- Database replication
- The ability to put a database's log on a separate device
- Locking information monitoring
- Reclaiming unused space

These tools and features are discussed in Part Two of this guide. See the sections in that part for more information.

Parent topic: Multiple-client features available in Derby
Related concepts
Row-level locking
Multiple concurrency levels
Multi-connection and multi-threading