Re: [Boost-users] C++ Framework Libraries for Programming Popular databases

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] C++ Framework Libraries for Programming Popular databases
From: plarroy (plarroy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-12 01:30:30

I'd recommend taking a look at libpqxx it's completely C++ semantics and 
very powerful. It's for postgresql but the design is great.

Regards.

muhammadchang wrote:
> I recently took part in a project to create a full POS solution for a major
> European retailer. The main requirement was software uniformity to
> compensate a wild range of legacy installed hardware.  We have successfully
> used a library called DTL, which uses concepts like containers and iterators
> as a higher level interface to a mundane ODBC driver, in our case targeting
> a Postgres database. DTL isn't perfect, of course. We still have to cope
> with the infamous "impedance mismatch", and the C++ language, by its very
> nature, make the gap even larger. Well, what I want to say is that, if I was
> to develop a Boost.DB lib, I would take a very careful look at DTL, to get
> as close as possible to the relational paradigm. Perhaps even closer than
> Java.
>
> http://dtemplatelib.sourceforge.net/
>
> Regards,
> Kenneth
>
>
> biolaser wrote:
>   
>> I am interested in your recommendation of any open source, cross-platform
>> C++ libraries designed for programming the major databases (Oracle, MySql,
>> Postgres, MS Access, Sybase, etc). Boost does not provide any such
>> database/sql library framework for C++. If you can point me toward a
>> source
>> or sources that do offer such a framework, and possibly one(s) the Boost
>> people favor, it would be very much appreciated. Primarily, I am
>> developing
>> code for Windows and Unix/Linux.
>>
>>  
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Boost-users mailing list
>> Boost-users_at_[hidden]
>> http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users
>>
>>     
>
>