UnixODBC.pm provides a Perl API for the unixODBC driver manager and a bridge API for unixODBC network queries. The sample text-mode, GUI, and Web clients can manage multiple hosts and DBMSs and create RSS output.
The PoolMan library and JDBC2.0 Driver and DataSource provide a JMX-based, XML-configurable means of pooling and caching Java objects, as well as extensions for caching SQL queries and results across multiple databases.