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Document number: N3886

Date: 2014-01-18

A Proposal to add a Database  Access Layer to the Standard Library

by Johann Anhofe

Excerpt:

This document describes an easy to use database abstraction layer for C++. It describes a set of classes which can be used to access an arbitrary SQL based relational database system."

There exist a lot of different database systems in the world, with a lot of different API’s for accessing data within a C++ program. The most API’s are in plain old C, which make the usage even harder for novice programmers. So we need a simple harmonized layer which can be easily extended for new database systems and also easily used by programmers.