OpenDBX is an extremely lightweight but extensible database access library written in C. OpenDBX provides an abstraction layer to all supported databases with a single, clean and simple interface that leads to an elegant code design automatically.

If you want your application to support different databases with little effort, this is definitively the right thing for you!

The OpenDBX library provides a unified and consistent API for software developers to different database management systems. The function library is written in the C programming language and aims at implementing access to the native database interfaces efficiently via a thin abstraction layer.

OpenDBX consists of a basic set of functions which are part of all vendor database libraries and can be extended by additional function blocks.

Contrary to interfaces like ODBC, the OpenDBX library favors speed and flexibility and therefore doesn't try to unify the SQL query language.

OpenDBX enables the application developer either to utilize more efficient database specific language elements or to use only standardized SQL elements.

Furthermore, this approach allows adding support for databases that don't implement SQL as query language.

Publisher: Norbert Sendetzky

Tags: database access, database management,