[odb-users] Web http client as database runtime

[Boris Kolpackov]

Adnan RIHAN <adnan at rihan.fr> writes:

> I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean by "present your
> web API as an existing database API", maybe you're suggesting the same
> thing I was thinking about (but I certainly wasn't clear enough).

By way of example, there is the MySQL database which defines a C API
for its client library (libmysqlclient). MariaDB provides exactly
the same API using its own client library and so can be used with
ODB in place of MySQL.


> I wasn't talking about a complete engine, but just reusing the ODB
> database API (persist(), find(), etc…) and reimplement them as web
> calls instead of database calls. I think you meant the same?

Not quite, but this is also an option, though probably an even harder
one. For one, you will also need to customize the ODB compiler.