OpenDBX/Support

Supported databases

Backends of officially supported database management systems (DBMS) are included in the source distribution and consist of modules for

Database	Backend name	Links	Comment
Firebird	firebird	http://www.firebirdsql.org/
Interbase	firebird	http://www.codegear.com/	Since v6.0
MS SQL Server	mssql	http://www.microsoft.com/	Using FreeTDS
MySQL	mysql	http://www.mysql.com/	Since v4.1
Oracle	oracle	http://www.oracle.com/	Since v7.0
PostgreSQL	pgsql	http://www.postgresql.org/
SQLite	sqlite	http://www.sqlite.org/
SQLite 3	sqlite3	http://www.sqlite.org/
Sybase ASE	sybase	http://www.sybase.com/

Backends for more native database APIs can be written easily. The OpenDBX API Reference should provide all information to implement a new backend.

Tested platforms

• FreeBSD
• Linux
  • Debian
  • Gentoo
  • Fedora
  • OpenSuSE
  • RHEL
  • Ubuntu
• Mac OS X
• OpenPKG
• Solaris
• Windows (Cygwin and MinGW)

OpenDBX should compile on all Unix based platforms if a C compiler supporting the ISO C99 standard. Furthermore, building a shared library for each backend requires the dlopen() function. Alternatively, all backends can be linked with the core module to a single library. Some backends may only be supported on certain platforms depending on the availability of their used native database client library or of replacements thereof.

Native support for the Windows platform is still missing and we would appreciate any help to make OpenDBX available on Windows NT based systems without the need of Cygwin. When using Microsofts "Services for Unix" the only TODOs should be to create a Makefile and maybe a MSVC project file.