Hey Paul, Google for adodb, it's the first few hits, at least in my
search.  adodb is a standard php database abstraction layer, so if the
mdb2 says its like adodb, then yeah it sounds like an abstraction and
not a storage engine.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was reading the documentation for MDB2. It said that it is an
> abstraction layer for PHP. Pardon my lack of understanding, but I just
> want to make sure that my understanding is correct. It appears to me
> that MDB2 is a database interface (such as ODBC and OLE-DB), and it is
> not actually a database (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL). Is my
> understanding correct? They compare it to DB and ADODB, but I am not
> familiar with those terms, and widipedia doesn't have entries for
> them.
>
> Thanks
> Paul
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> What are some of the main reasons you recommend MDB2? I understand that
>>> it is supported in the Pear community. Is it 100% GPL ? other reasons...
>>
>> Database independence.  Which probably you do not care about short-term.
>> You may or may not care long-term, which is really hard to predict.
>> Either way, hard to go wrong by starting out with MDB2.
>> /Randall
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