CppDB - SQL Connectivity Library

CppDB is an SQL connectivity library that is designed to provide platform and Database independent connectivity API similarly to what JDBC, ODBC and other connectivity libraries do.

CppDB was designed with following goals in the mind:

• Performance is the primary goal - make fastest possible SQL connectivity as possible
• Transparent connection pooling support
• Transparent prepared statements caching
• Dynamic DB modules loading and optional static linking
• Full and high priority support of FOSS RDBMS: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite3
• Support as many RDBMSs as possible via cppdb-odbc bridge
• Simplicity in use
• Locale safety
• Support of both explicit verbose API and brief and nice syntactic sugar

This library was developed on the base of experience with SOCI, libdbi and other SQL Connectivity libraries.

The library is released under LGPLv3 license.

This manual is divided in the following parts:

Basic use:

• Quick Start Guide
• Connecting to Database
• Preparing and Executing Statements
• Fetching Query Results
• Handling Transactions
• Escaping Strings
• Backends Reference
• Building CppDB
• Tested Compilers and Platforms

Advanced use:

• Linking Existing Drivers Statically
• Developing Your Own Backends