S.O.D.A. database Query API - call for comments

Hi all,

we are working on an API to query databases.

Some points we would like to achieve:
- Objects can be reused for queries without the conversion to strings.

• Queries can be nearly perfectly typesafe. Compile-time typechecking is available for application developers.
• String queries do not have to be parsed by database engines. Advantages:
  • improved performance
  • reduced overhead and less resource consumption
  • less sources of error
  • less implementation work for db developers
• Objects use less resources in code than strings. They can be compiled.
• Problems can be isolated.
• Parts of queries can be reused.

A first draft of the API documentation and some sourcecode can can be dowloaded from
http://www.odbms.org/soda/soda.zip

Please have a look over our work if you can spare some time. If you would like to comment, you are invited to post here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oodb
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Any real-world problems, which seem unsolvable with the current API would of course also be very welcome. The evolution of the API is in progress. You could help us to avoid flaws.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Carl Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 19:59:08 CEST