Re: [Cppcms-users] Does CppDB use native database driver or ODBC-like layerss?

[Artyom <art...@ya...>]

> From: CN <cn...@gr...>
> 
> Hi!
> 
> CppDB's connection pool feature attracts me.
> 
> "Support as many  RDBMSs as possible via cppdb-odbc bridge" is quoted  from
> 
> http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/sql/cppdb/intro.html
> 
> I heard  that ODBC is slow. For windowz, configuring ODBC is also hugely  
> painful.
> 
> Does CppDB directly uses DBMS native drivers or  indirectly?
> Take PostgreSQL as an example, does CppDB directly call libpq  functions or  
> indirectly call them through some ODBC layers? If CppDB  depends on ODBC,  
> does CppDB suffer from performance  issue?
> 

Yes CppDB provides, native drivers: 

See: http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/sql/cppdb/backendref.html

ODBC should be used only for RDBMSs that do not have native drivers.

CppDB supports following native drivers: MySQL, Sqlite3, PostgreSQL

Artyom