SQL Relay 0.38 review

SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix and Linux. Here are some key fe

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SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix and Linux.

Here are some key features of "SQL Relay":
SQL Relay is ideal for:

speeding up database-driven web-based applications
enhancing the scalability of database-driven web-based applications
distributing access to replicated databases
throttling database access
accessing databases from unsupported platforms
migrating applications from one database to another

SQL Relay supports the following database backends:

Oracle
MySQL
mSQL
PostgreSQL
Sybase
MS SQL Server
IBM DB2
Interbase
Sybase
SQLite
ODBC
MS Access

The SQL Relay client API's support advanced database operations such as bind variables, multi-row fetches, client-side result set caching and suspended transactions. SQL Relay has native client API's for the following languages:

C
C++
Perl
Python
PHP
Ruby
Java
TCL
Zope

SQL Relay provides drivers for the following database abstraction layers:

Perl DBD
Python DB
Ruby DBD
PHP Pear DB

An application coded using another database's native client API may be able to use SQL Relay without modification. SQL Relay provides drop-in replacement libraries for:

MySQL
PostgreSQL

SQL Relay also features:

command line clients
a GUI configuration tool
extensive documentation

What's New in This Release:
This release adds support for query routing and filtering, MySQL stmt API support, and some Oracle Unicode CLOB fixes.