dbic++ is a database client library written in C++ which comes with support for the following databases,
- PostgreSQL >= 8.3
- MySQL >= 5.0
- SQLite >= 3.7
- Simple and fast.
- Support for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3.
- Nested transactions.
- API for async queries (PostgreSQL and MySQL).
#include "dbic++.h"
#include <unistd.h>
using namespace std;
using namespace dbi;
int main() {
// Handle h ("driver", "user", "password", "database", "host", "port");
Handle h ("postgresql", dbi::getlogin(), "", "dbicpp");
Query query (h, "SELECT id, name, email FROM users WHERE id >= ? AND id < ?");
// bind and execute the statement.
query % 1L, 10L;
query.execute();
ResultRow r;
while (query.read(r))
cout << r.join("\t") << endl;
// or you can do
query.rewind();
ResultRowHash rh;
while (query.read(rh))
cout << rh["id"] << "\t"
<< rh["name"] << "\t"
<< rh["email"] << endl;
query.finish();
}See src/examples for more specific examples.
You need to install swift (http://github.com/shanna/swift), it includes ruby bindings for dbic++.
If you are building from source you need to install a few dependencies before you compile dbic++. To begin with you need a working build environment with a c++ compiler (XCode if you are a MacOSX user).
- cmake
- pcre3 development libraries
- uuid development libraries
- mysql client libraries (optional)
- postgresql client libraries (optional)
- sqlite3 development libraries (optional)
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install cmake libpcre3-dev uuid-dev
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev libpq-dev libsqlite3-dev
I'm assuming you're using homebrew. If not, please go to https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation
You need to install the required dependencies first,
brew install cmake
brew install pcre
brew install ossp-uuid
brew install postgresql
brew install mysql
brew install sqlite3
The last three database are optional. You only need to install the ones you want to test or use.
./build
sudo ./build -i
./build -c
sudo ./build -u
If you need to build debian packages yourself, you may need the following in addition.
sudo apt-get install cdbs debhelper devscripts
To build debian packages for your local architecture,
./build -d
If you are too lazy to compile your own binaries you can use the ubuntu ppa at https://launchpad.net/~deepfryed/+archive/ppa.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deepfryed/dbic++
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dbic++-dev dbic++-pg dbic++-sqlite3 dbic++-mysql
A few c++ examples can be found under src/examples/ and once you finish building the binaries can be found under demo/
./demo/demo [mysql|postgresql|sqlite3]
./demo/async [mysql|postgresql]
This is not mandatory but would allow you to set timezones using Handle#setTimeZone method in dbic++.
On most unix systems it can be done as,
mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root mysql
Refer to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html.
You can run these yourself if you're keen. The makefile might need some tweaks on non-debian based distributions. The following results were obtained on a Core2DUO 2.53GHz, 4GB, 5200rpm drive with stock database configs.
* The dataset size is 50 rows of 3 fields (id, text, timestamp)
* 10000 SELECT queries run back to back, fetching all rows and printing them.
cd bench/ && make
./benchmarks.sh
+ Setting up sample data (50 rows)
* mysql
* postgresql
+ Done
./benchmarks.sh -w bench -n10000
+ Benchmarking mysql
* mysql user 0.69 sys 0.21 real 2.34
* mysql++ user 1.06 sys 0.09 real 2.74
* dbic++ user 0.81 sys 0.25 real 2.58
+ Benchmarking postgresql
* pq user 0.42 sys 0.14 real 2.01
* dbic++ user 0.49 sys 0.12 real 2.05
+ Finished
- sqlite3: Simulate async IO operations.
- mysql: Proper bind parameter interpolation for Handle::execute(string, vector&)
- Cursor support, generic interface to database specific api.
- sqlite3: No support for async operations yet.
- mysql: Handle::execute(...) replaces ? with given bind parameters if bind parameters are provided. Any literal values with ? character will be interpreted as a bind argument. If you are using Handle::execute(...) with bind arguments, make sure to provide all values as bind parameters to avoid the confusion and resulting errors.
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Like any other OSS, do your research and do your testing (especially if you're using it in space shuttles).