Gnome-db
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GNOME-DB is the database application of GNOME Office, the office suite of the GNOME desktop. The project aims to provide a free unified data access architecture to the GNOME project for all Unix platforms. GNOME-DB is useful for any application that accesses persistent data (not only databases, but data), since it now contains a data management API. | GNOME-DB is the database application of GNOME Office, the office suite of the GNOME desktop. The project aims to provide a free unified data access architecture to the GNOME project for all Unix platforms. GNOME-DB is useful for any application that accesses persistent data (not only databases, but data), since it now contains a data management API. | ||
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| + | GNOME-DB is useful for any application that accesses persistent data (not only databases, but data), since it now contains a pretty good data management API. | ||
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| + | GNOME-DB's production corresponds to the Libgda library which is mainly a database and data abstraction layer, and includes a GTK+ based UI extension, and some graphical tools: | ||
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| + | * Libgda depends on the GLib (and integrates with it), and LibXML. | ||
| + | * Libgda's UI extension depends on GTK+ | ||
| + | * Libgda's graphical tools depend on GTK+ and optionally GooCanvas and GraphViz | ||
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| + | '''Features''' | ||
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| + | Libgda is a (relatively small) database access library: | ||
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| + | a) it is a wrapper like ODBC but with more features to access several atabase engines | ||
| + | b) features a meta data extractor (to know all about database objects in a common way) | ||
| + | c) comes with an SQL console application (like mysql, psql or sqlite3 consoles) | ||
| + | d) relies on GLib, coded in C, its API is easy to use | ||
| + | e) at the moment supports SQLite (and SQLCipher), MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSAccess, Berkeley Db (and is SQL extension), Oracle and JDBC (allows access to | ||
| + | any database through a JDBC driver), work is in progress for other database | ||
| + | types (such as Firebird). There is also a special feature which allows one to | ||
| + | connect to a database hidden behing a web server (through specific PHP scripts) | ||
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| + | f) LGPL licensed for the libraries and GPL licensed for the tools | ||
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| + | '''Libgda's UI Extension''' | ||
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| + | Libgda's UI Extension features: | ||
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| + | a) a set of data bound widgets to show and edit data directly in the | ||
| + | database, | ||
| + | b) some 'administrative' widgets for example to enter the connection | ||
| + | parameters to open a connection. | ||
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| + | '''Libgda's graphical tools''' | ||
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| + | Libgda's UI graphical tools include: | ||
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| + | a) a data sources administration tool to manage data sources and test them | ||
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| + | b) a database "browser" which allows one to explore a database's structure | ||
| + | and, in the future modify its contents. For more information, see the | ||
| + | GdaBrowser's specific page. | ||
