Hello, Sp wrote: > > Can someone with database expertise who has used metabase and adodb cut > through this rhetoric and give an objective view of these two packages. > From what I got from this convo is that metabase is slower but more portable > but adodb is faster but not as portable.
No, Metabase does much more than ADODB. When you do more, eventually things may take a little longer when you do less. This should be obvious. Anyway, if you really care about portability, you're only way out is Metabase. If you are in doubt about the features, think at least about what you can do with each package to migrate your data when you decide to switch databases. Metabase is the only package that offer painless and failure proof method of migrating data using the XML schema support. With the other package you need to write custom scripts for migration which is a real pain and prone to error due to eventual bugs of software that you need to write on your own. Other abstraction packages were not meant for true portability but rather for interface makeup. I think you will be the better judge of that if you try looking at least at each package documentation. It is pointless to ask to people here when most of them only know one or the other package. You may also want to take a look at BinaryCloud which is a well designed and mature PHP application development framework. It works with Metabase and will save you countless hours of developing your applications from scratch. BinaryCloud http://binarycloud.tigris.org/ Metabase http://www.phpclasses.org/metabase Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
