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2012, Sunday January 29

Microsoft states: OleDB out - enjoy ODBC!

By A.Bouchez on 2012, Sunday January 29, 14:30 - mORMot Framework

For our native connection to any DB, we developed a set of classes and several units.

We implemented at first OleDB, then native Oracle direct access and SQlite3 static engine.

Now, Microsoft is officially deprecating OleDB, and urge all developers to switch to the open and cross-platform ODBC API for native connection.

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2012, Tuesday January 17

SynDBExplorer fast direct export

By A.Bouchez on 2012, Tuesday January 17, 23:02 - Open Source libraries

The Open Source SynDBExplorer tool has been enhanced these days.

Main new features are:

  • Execution of the current selected text (if any) instead of the whole memo content;
  • "Exec & Export" new button, for direct export to file.
I really like the selection execution feature - this speed up SQL process a lot, and allow to switch from one statement to another.
And the new exporting features are opening new possibilities.

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2011, Sunday September 25

Synopse SQLite3/mORMot framework 1.15

By A.Bouchez on 2011, Sunday September 25, 21:46 - mORMot Framework

Our Client-Server ORM framework is now available in revision 1.15.

This is a major upgrade of the framework:

  • It is now called mORMot - so please update your T-Shirts or coffee cups ;)
  • It is able to use any Database engine back-end - in fact, it is SQLite3 powered, not SQLite3 limited;
  • In particular, direct OleDB and native Oracle have been implemented;
  • It makes use of the genuine SQlite3 Virtual Table mechanism everywhere to allow mixed access to any database engine;
  • New TModTime / TCreateTime kind of fields;
  • Enhanced stability, speed and multi-thread implementation;
  • Methods and functions have been enhanced, according to user feedback (thanks you all for your interest and forum posts!);
  • Extended documentation (more than 700 pdf pages), with new diagrams and a lot of new content;
  • New associated tools, like LogViewer or SynDBExplorer;
  • The SQLite3 core can now be used without our ORM - it has been updated to the latest 3.7.8 version;
  • Open Source (under GPL/LGPL/MPL license), running from Delphi 6 up to XE2.

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2011, Wednesday August 10

Framework documentation updated for revision 1.15

By A.Bouchez on 2011, Wednesday August 10, 20:52 - mORMot Framework

The framework documentation was just updated.

The general organization of the SAD document (which is the one to be read in all cases) has been refreshed, and is now separated in smaller chapters.

The new official name has been changed into "Synopse SQLite3/mORMot framework"...

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2011, Sunday August 7

SQLite3-powered, not SQLite3-limited

By A.Bouchez on 2011, Sunday August 7, 09:46 - mORMot Framework

Our downloadable documentation has been enhanced, and contains now a description about the main feature of the near-to-come 1.15 version, i.e. "database agnosticism".

The core database of our mORMot / SQLite3 framework uses the SQLite3 library, which is a Free, Secure, Zero-Configuration, Server-less, Single Stable Cross-Platform Database File database engine.

As stated below, you can use any other database access layer, if you wish. A fast in-memory engine is included, and can be used instead or together with the SQLite3 engine. Since revision 1.15 of the framework you may be able to access any remote database, and use one or more OleDB (or Oracle) connections to store your precious ORM objects. The SQlite3 will be used as the main SQL engine, able to JOIN all those tables, thanks to its Virtual Table unique feature.

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2011, Friday July 22

SynDBSQLite3: SQLite3 direct access

By A.Bouchez on 2011, Friday July 22, 17:14 - Open Source libraries

For our ORM framework, we implemented an efficient SQLite3 wrapper, joining statically (i.e. without any external dll) the SQLite3 engine to the executable. SQLite3 is in fact used as the DB kernel of the framework. For instance, thanks to its unique virtual table mechanism, even tables in other databases (like Oracle or MSSQL) are available as if they were SQLite3 tables.

We just made this wrapper independent from our ORM, in a new dedicated unit, named SynSQLite3.pas.

It was an easy task to let this unit be called from our SynDB database abstract classes.

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2011, Saturday July 9

SynDBOracle: Open Source native Oracle access

By A.Bouchez on 2011, Saturday July 9, 11:46 - mORMot Framework

For our upcoming mORMot framework, and in completion to our SynOleDB unit, we just added a new Open Source unit, named SynDBOracle. It allows direct access to any remote Oracle server, using the Oracle Call Interface.

Oracle Call Interface (OCI) is the most comprehensive, high performance, native unmanaged interface to the Oracle Database that exposes the full power of the Oracle Database. We wrote a direct call of the oci.dll library, using our DB abstraction classes introduced for SynOleDB.

We tried to implement all best-practice patterns detailed in the official Building High Performance Drivers for Oracle document

Resulting speed is quite impressive: for all requests, SynDBOracle is 3 to 5 times faster than a SynOleDB connection using the native OleDB Provider supplied by Oracle. We noted also that our implementation is 10 times faster than the one provided with ZEOS/ZDBC, which is far from optimized.

You can use the latest version of the Oracle Instant Client provided by Oracle - see this link - which allows you to run your applications without installing the standard (huge) Oracle client or having an ORACLE_HOME. Just deliver the dll files in the same directory than your application, and it will work.

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