Some time ago I posted a compilation of applications and programming languages that provide an API to connect to the MySQL Server. As it turned out, I forgot a few that I would like to mention here:
Giri Mandalika has written an article showing how to develop
C++ database applications for MySQL and
another article showing how to install MySQL Connector/C++ from the
source.
Giri Mandalika has written an article showing how to develop
C++ database applications for MySQL and
another article showing how to install MySQL Connector/C++ from the
source.
Giri Mandalika has written an article showing how to develop
C++ database applications for MySQL and
another article showing how to install MySQL Connector/C++ from the
source.
One of the sessions at DrupalCon I attended was Larry Garfield's talk about "Drupal Databases: The Next Generation", which gave me a good insight into the current state of the Drupal database layer and how they plan to overhaul it for Drupal 7. The key points that I took away:
Being able to use an Open Source DBMS to manage your data is nice, but what good would it be if you can't easily access it from your applications? One key factor to the popularity of MySQL is probably its wide range of available language bindings, which started with support for C, PHP and Perl from early on.
I've tried to gather a list of languages and their respective MySQL drivers/modules below. It's by no means complete or exhaustive, but I think I covered quite a lot of popular as well as exotic programming languages.
There is a number of connectors which are actually developed by the Sun Database Group (aka MySQL) itself and that are ready to use: