> I was reading the documentation for MDB2. It said that it is an > abstraction layer for PHP. ... 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 wikipedia doesn't have entries for them.
ODBC is a middleware layer. MDB2 & ADOdb for PHP (& Perl DBI) are database abstraction layers. MySQL & PostgresSql are RDBMS. InnoDB (recommended) and MyISAM are storage engines for MySQL. /Randall _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
